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Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: PRIMARY FCC cross-client use verified for Idaho First and Magic Valley Voter Action; Boise levy vendor role contemporaneously reported. Shared vendor does NOT establish client coordination.
Targeted Platform Media LLC appears as a recurring professional media-buying vendor across multiple otherwise distinct Idaho political/advocacy nodes. Primary 2026 FCC records identify Targeted Platform Media as the agency requesting/buying station time for both Idaho First and Magic Valley Voter Action, with Cathie Herrick as agency contact. Idaho First’s KTVB contract reports 45 spots, $14,560 gross and $12,376 net, while Magic Valley Voter Action’s two …
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Recorded status: Connected-organization relationship and $125K 2025 WFF receipt are primary verified; current reporting puts cumulative WFF→Way Back at $1.125M, with the $1M raw receipt row still pending reproduction.
A materially stronger legal/organizational relationship connects Western Futures Fund (WFF) and Way Back PAC. Way Back’s Jan. 14, 2026 FEC Statement of Organization expressly lists Western Futures Fund and checks “Connected Organization.” Federal law and 11 CFR 100.6 define a connected organization as a non-political-committee organization that directly or indirectly establishes, administers or financially supports a political committee; the filing itself …
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Recorded status: Verified direct Western Futures→Idahoans United and New Venture→Idahoans United grants from IRS-derived data. Exact Leuthold amount requires filing reconciliation. Pass-through/earmarking not established.
IRS-derived FY2024 records identify three institutional grants to Idahoans United for Women and Families: $60,000 from Western Futures Fund, $37,500 from New Venture Fund, and approximately $20,000 from Steven C. Leuthold Family Foundation (CauseIQ later identifies a $25,000 operations grant, likely reflecting filing-year/update differences that should be reconciled before quoting the third amount). Western Futures itself reported receiving $1.78 million f…
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Recorded status: Verified alumni governance/funding architecture. Clinton administration/federal funding is NOT established; Berger grant terms prohibit election use.
Two independent Clinton-administration alumni routes converge on Sixteen Thirty Fund, which later made direct Idaho grants. First, the National Democratic Institute biography of Arabella Advisors founder Eric Kessler states that he served as a White House appointee helping manage conservation issues during the Clinton administration and serves on the board of the 1630 Fund. Sixteen Thirty's 2020 filing identifies Arabella as a 35%-controlled entity of boar…
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Recorded status: Verified from public Form 990/vendor records; common administrative infrastructure does not establish common control of grantees or Idaho activity.
Public Form 990/vendor records show Arabella Advisors providing substantial administrative, operations, compliance, HR, payroll and support services to Hopewell Fund, New Venture Fund and Sixteen Thirty Fund. Hopewell reported about $9.3 million to Arabella for administrative/operational support in FY2024. New Venture Fund's FY2024 Schedule O states it contracted with Arabella under an administrative agreement for business services including compliance, HR…
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Recorded status: Verified from Idaho Dairymen’s Association publications and current Unity Alliance records; quid-pro-quo or control not established.
Idaho Dairymen’s Association publications document a political relationship with Chenele Dixon that predates her later Unity Alliance board role. IDI PAC’s 2022 post-primary report lists Dixon as an endorsed House candidate who received both a financial contribution and independent-expenditure support; Greg Lanting was also endorsed. IDI PAC’s 2024 endorsement material again lists Dixon, Linda Wright Hartgen and Greg Lanting among supported Magic Valley ca…
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Recorded status: Verified event-level relationship and targeted financial negative check. No public direct payment/grant/contribution located; private or unindexed transactions cannot be excluded.
A targeted search for direct financial transactions between Reclaim Idaho/Reclaim Idaho Fund and Idaho Solutions Inc./Idaho Solutions Foundation did not locate a public grant, contribution, payment, invoice, sponsorship transfer, or campaign-finance transaction between the entities. Exact-name searches for Idaho Solutions + Reclaim Idaho with payment/contribution/donation/grant terminology repeatedly surfaced the documented event relationships instead: (1)…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified recurrence of Way Back PAC, Article IV and Unite America PAC as Idaho funders in 2026. No Reclaim-to-Defend-and-Protect organizational connection established.
In Idaho's 2026 primary cycle, reporting based on Idaho campaign-finance data identified Way Back PAC, Article IV and Unite America PAC—the same three major national funding nodes in the 2024 Proposition 1 campaign—as among the largest out-of-state contributors to Defend and Protect Idaho. Defend and Protect Idaho, led by former Ada County Sheriff Gary Raney, spent more than $752,800 supporting 23 Republican primary candidates and opposing 14 others. Idaho…
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Recorded status: Verified shared address/phone/personnel/brand relationship. Formal affiliate status, parent/subsidiary relationship, shared-services agreement and inter-entity transfers remain unresolved.
The relationship between Idaho Solutions Inc. (501(c)(4), EIN 33-2605998) and Idaho Solutions Foundation Inc. (501(c)(3), EIN 39-5049634) can now be described more precisely. Public business/nonprofit records identify Idaho Solutions Inc. at PO Box 73, Kimberly, Idaho 83341 with telephone 208-420-3232 and Chenele Dixon as Executive Director. CauseIQ/IRS-derived records identify Idaho Solutions Foundation at the same PO Box 73 address and the same 208-420-3…
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Recorded status: Strong secondary transaction evidence from current Idaho campaign-finance aggregation plus verified V4IV public activity; primary Sunshine transaction row still pending.
Current 2026 Transparency USA aggregation for Veterans for Idaho Voters Inc. reports $78,457 total contributions and attributes $75,000 to Idahoans for Open Primaries, approximately 95.6% of reported cycle contributions. The same contributor table lists Cindy Wilson, separately documented as MWEG Idaho State Director and an Idaho Solutions board member, as a $40 individual contributor. V4IV’s current website says the organization now recruits/supports vete…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified operational support from Idahoans for Open Primaries campaign material reproduced in court exhibits. No control inference.
Idahoans for Open Primaries' 2024 petition-signing instructions designated the Reclaim Idaho office at 2605 W Kootenai St in Boise as a public signing location with weekday office hours and a Reclaim organizer email for accommodations. This is direct operational evidence that Reclaim contributed physical infrastructure and organizer contact capacity to the Proposition 1 qualification campaign, beyond being a coalition member, contributor, or source of publ…
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Recorded status: PRIMARY/IRS-derived governance and program structure verified; Blue Moon day-to-day role separately primary verified. Individual officers’ external identities and donor influence remain unresolved unless uniquely sourced.
Western Futures Fund’s FY2024 Form 990 identifies a compact governance structure above the separately documented Blue Moon Strategies operating layer. The return reports three voting members of the governing body and three independent voting members. Part VII identifies Michael Hennesy as president, Jeremy Krones as treasurer and Christopher Hirsch as secretary; each reports $0 compensation from Western Futures Fund, and the filing reports no family or bus…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: PRIMARY America Votes Idaho state-table presence at 2024 summit verified; Sixteen Thirty→America Votes multi-year funding IRS-derived. Idaho table identity, roster, funding and 1630 Idaho earmarking remain unresolved.
America Votes is Sixteen Thirty Fund’s largest identified downstream grantee and its own 2024 State Summit documents an Idaho state-table presence. IRS-derived Sixteen Thirty grant records report approximately $179.6M to America Votes across five grants from 2020-2024. Publicly indexed year-specific Sixteen Thirty records include approximately $128.98M in 2020, $1.525M in 2021, $20.658M in 2022, roughly $0.59M in 2023 by multi-year reconciliation, and $27.…
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Recorded status: Verified WEF network/support relationship and Boise voter-information project announcement. Specific WEF funding, partisan activity or electoral/legislative causation is NOT established.
A narrow but direct World Economic Forum institutional route into Idaho civic/election-related activity is documented through the Global Shapers Community. WEF's own 2016 Global Shapers annual report lists a Boise Hub. A November 30, 2015 Idaho Statesman item introducing Global Shapers Boise says it was a branch of the World Economic Forum Global Shapers Community and identified an upcoming project to inform Boise young adults and first-time voters about t…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Current FEC summary and FEC-bulk aggregation verified; one $125K WFF row is primary reproduced and WFF connected-organization status is primary verified. Remaining large WFF/Toolbox receipt rows still require raw-row reproduction before transaction-level finality.
Current FEC data materially increases the scale of the Western Futures→Way Back→Idaho route beyond earlier snapshots. The FEC committee overview reports Way Back PAC total receipts of $5,185,803.26 for Jan. 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026. A current FEC-bulk aggregation of itemized large receipts groups Western Futures Fund under two filer/entity classifications: $1,075,000 across two receipts plus a separately classified $125,000 receipt, for approximately …
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Recorded status: Verified from Idaho Supreme Court opinion; direct operational staffing bridge. Legal control/common finances not established.
The Idaho Supreme Court’s 2023 decision in Idahoans for Open Primaries v. Labrador establishes a direct operational staffing bridge between Reclaim Idaho and the Open Primaries initiative. The Court states that Ashley Prince had been a Reclaim Idaho employee since 2021 working as a campaign manager, that Reclaim was actively pursuing the initiative, and that Prince served as campaign manager for the Idahoans for Open Primaries initiative campaign while con…
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Recorded status: Verified entity/personnel links. Corporate control, inter-entity transfers, shared-service agreements and donor routing remain unresolved.
The Reclaim Idaho network has multiple legal/committee layers. Reclaim Idaho appears in Idaho campaign-finance records as a political committee; a 2019 filing lists Deborah Silver as political treasurer. Reclaim Idaho Fund Inc. (EIN 86-3680412) is a 501(c)(4) formed in 2021; IRS-derived records list Luke Mayville, Yvonne Sandmire, and Cameron Crow as directors in earlier filings, with Mayville receiving $35,897 compensation in FY2023. A separate 501(c)(3),…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified professional/network affiliations and self-reported CV claims. No control/funding inference from BISC or Democratic Party recognition.
Luke Mayville's own CV lists political-organizing expertise in campaign strategy, leadership recruitment, speechwriting/communications, and fundraising. It also lists a 2019 Idaho Democratic Party 'Activist of the Year' award shared with Reclaim co-founders Emily and Garrett Strizich; this is evidence of party recognition, not proof that Reclaim is a Democratic Party organization. The Ballot Initiative Strategy Center (BISC) has profiled Mayville as a camp…
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Recorded status: PRIMARY FCC VERIFIED local governing/contact and media-buy vendor. Funding-source direction, shared-vendor coordination and upstream earmarking are NOT established.
Primary 2026 FCC political-file records identify the Idaho-side steering and media-buying structure for Idaho First. An FCC issue-ad disclosure for Idaho First lists PO Box 334, Boise, Idaho 83701; identifies Richard Johnson as the organization contact; gives richard@idaho-first.com; and lists Richard Johnson as the sole named member of the chief executive officers/executive committee/board/other governing group field. The same record identifies Targeted P…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified c3 governance link from IRS-derived filing. Exact c3/c4 legal relationship and funding flows remain unresolved.
IRS-derived FY2025 Form 990-EZ data for Idaho Solutions Foundation Inc., EIN 39-5049634, Kimberly, Idaho, identifies Linda Hartgen as president, Chenele Dixon as director, Stephanie Snarr as secretary, and Cindy Wilson as vice president, all with $0 reported compensation. The filing reports $1,000 revenue, all contributions/grants, and $1,000 ending net assets. The organization is listed as a 501(c)(3), with IRS ruling year January 2026. Separately, public…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Unresolved identity; secondary normalization is insufficient. Keep separate until unique primary identifier is found.
Primary FCC material for Idaho Values First identifies 'Judy Ellis' among its governing persons. Defend and Protect Idaho's official records/site identify 'Judith Ellis' as treasurer. Secondary 2026 reporting normalizes the Idaho Values First name to 'Judith Ellis,' which increases the plausibility of an identity match, but no primary record reviewed supplies a matching full legal name, address or other unique identifier connecting the two. Keep them as se…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified national grant purposes and Open Primaries partnership/support relationship; Idaho earmarking or downstream transfer not established.
A second national infrastructure route into the Idaho Open Primaries effort is documented through Open Primaries / Open Primaries Education Fund. Unite America Institute’s primary 2023 Form 990 Schedule I shows a $450,000 grant to Open Primaries Education Fund for a grassroots program for activists supportive of primary reform, media and research, and long-term litigation. IRS-derived records show Unite America Institute ultimately gave Open Primaries Educ…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified from IRS-derived FY2024 filing data. Asset accumulation established; use/transfer/restriction of those assets remains unresolved.
IRS-derived FY2024 Form 990 data for Reclaim Idaho Fund Inc. (EIN 86-3680412) reports $312,808 total revenue, including $312,428 in contributions, against $40,550 of expenses, producing $272,258 in net income and $351,972 in year-end net assets with no reported liabilities. FY2023 net assets were $79,714, so the 2024 increase in net assets matches the reported $272,258 net income. This shows the 501(c)(4) entered 2025 with substantial accumulated assets re…
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Recorded status: PRIMARY $550K grant plus recipient Idaho electoral/lobbying mission verified. Idaho earmarking and transaction-level pass-through to Idaho PAC/candidate activity NOT established.
Sixteen Thirty Fund’s primary FY2022 Schedule I reports a $550,000 grant to Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates (PPAA), EIN 94-3168114, for civil rights, social action and advocacy. PPAA is the multi-state 501(c)(4) political/advocacy organization serving Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky and Washington. Its own filings describe program activities that include voter engagement and education, candidate endorsements/electoral activity through indepe…
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