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Research finding · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified from IRS-derived FY2025 filing data. Financial scale, contribution dependence and Dixon compensation established; donor identities remain unresolved.
IRS-derived FY2025 Form 990 data for Idaho Solutions Inc. (EIN 33-2605998), Kimberly, Idaho, reports approximately $83,000 total revenue, all reported as contributions and grants, approximately $45,000 total expenses, approximately $39,000 year-end net assets, and $0 liabilities. Chenele Dixon is reported as Secretary/Treasurer with $12,000 compensation. The filing reports a 55% program-service expense ratio. Idaho Solutions is recognized as an active 501(…
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Recorded status: Verified authorship/personnel-history overlap; paid vendor/client relationship between Atlas and Idaho Leaders United NOT established.
Idaho Leaders United’s own updates page attributes numerous 2024 posts to Amanda Watson, including member profiles and issue statements. Watson is independently identified by Atlas Strategic Communications and public records as Atlas’s founder/president; Atlas’s own materials describe the firm as an issues-centric communications/public-affairs agency specializing in strategic communications, public engagement, media, paid media and stakeholder work. Idaho …
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Recorded status: Verified from sworn declaration and contemporaneous reporting. No adverse inference from education, employment, scholarships, or academic interests.
Luke Mayville co-founded Reclaim Idaho in Sandpoint in 2017. In a sworn declaration filed in Idaho litigation, Mayville said his Reclaim role included setting strategic priorities, fundraising, media communications, opinion writing, drafting initiative proposals, and statewide volunteer/leader recruitment. He said he attended North Idaho College, graduated summa cum laude from the University of Oregon in 2008, received McNair and Gilman scholarships, studi…
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Recorded status: Strong secondary campaign-finance aggregation; primary Idaho Sunshine transaction row/date/purpose pending.
Transparency USA's current Idaho 2026-cycle committee aggregation for Veterans for Idaho Voters Inc. reports $78,457 in total contributions and identifies Idahoans for Open Primaries as a $75,000 entity contributor. If the underlying Idaho Sunshine transaction row confirms the aggregation, that single contribution represents about 95.6% of V4IV's reported cycle contributions. V4IV is the Idaho affiliate of Veterans for All Voters and was a formal member of…
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Recorded status: Primary tax-filing extraction; upstream donor attribution to these payments is not established.
Western Futures Fund FY2024 Form 990 Schedule C reports payments from the organization’s funds of $1,500,000 to Your Community PAC, $970,000 to Retire Career Politicians Inc., $100,000 to Way Back PAC, and $100,000 to Wyoming Way PAC. The filing separately describes an Electoral program involving leadership development related to potential candidates for public office and grants to political organizations, with approximately $2.9 million in program expense…
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Recorded status: PRIMARY VERIFIED governance plus Idaho grants. Former-administration personnel link established; Obama administration/federal funding or direction is NOT established.
A direct former-Obama-administration governance link exists at Sixteen Thirty Fund during years in which the fund made direct Idaho grants. The Obama White House archive identifies Raul Alvillar as an Associate Director for Public Engagement. Harvard's Institute of Politics biography states that Alvillar worked on Barack Obama's 2007 presidential campaign, served in several Obama administration roles including Associate Director of the White House Office o…
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Recorded status: PRIMARY VERIFIED funding links and contemporaneous Idaho policy activity. Same-dollar earmarking, personal direction and bill-specific funding are NOT established.
A same-year 2021 institutional chain now directly connects George Soros-funded Open Society Policy Center to a national funder that gave money to an Idaho organization actively engaged in Idaho legislative-policy advocacy. Open Society's own historical annual report describes Open Society Policy Center (OSPC) as a nonpartisan 501(c)(4) public-policy organization 'funded directly by George Soros.' OSPC's primary 2021 Form 990 Schedule I lists eighteen separ…
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Recorded status: Verified c4 grant amounts/purpose and official Idaho partnership; Idaho earmarking/downstream transfer not established.
Open Primaries’ 501(c)(4), Open Primaries Inc. (EIN 47-1494685), received a $340,000 FY2023 grant from Unite America Inc. (the separate 501(c)(4), EIN 82-1106814). IRS-derived records reproduce the Unite grant purpose as “TO BUILD PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR OPEN OR NONPARTISAN PRIMARIES.” Open Primaries’ official Idaho page lists Reclaim Idaho and Idahoans for Open Primaries as its Idaho state partners. Open Primaries’ own research page also lists a declaration by…
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Recorded status: Verified direct grant relationships; Common Ground contact with WSC does not establish that these funders supported Common Ground or Idaho activity.
Western States Center, which Common Ground—United We Stand says Dixon and Conrad met during their 2024 national coalition-building effort, has a broad institutional funding base. IRS-derived 2019–2024 grant records identify approximately $385,000 from Foundation to Promote Open Society across four grants and approximately $352,000 from New Venture Fund across two grants, alongside larger totals from Meyer Memorial Trust, Fidelity Charitable, Catena Foundat…
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Recorded status: Verified contact, affiliate structure and organization-to-organization transactions; no causal or same-dollar connection from Common Ground to Idaho PAC spending established.
Common Ground — United We Stand's December 2024 newsletter says Chenele Dixon and Charlie Conrad met with Western States Center and that the meeting led to additional connections with pro-democracy/effective-government organizations. Western States Center's current website states it is the joint website of Western States Center, a 501(c)(3), and Western States Strategies, a 501(c)(4); Western States Strategies separately describes itself as organized and o…
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Recorded status: Verified personnel/campaign links from City of Boise filings, campaign materials, nonprofit filings and contemporaneous reporting. No organizational control/coordination inference.
Multiple documented personnel links connect the Reclaim/Votes Idaho/Idahoans United orbit to Boise Mayor Lauren McLean's political network. Yvonne 'Sam' Sandmire, who served as Reclaim Idaho's Ada County co-chair during the 2018 Medicaid campaign and later as a Reclaim Idaho Fund director, was officially appointed political treasurer for Lauren McLean for Boise in 2019; McLean's second-term campaign site continued to identify Sam Sandmire as treasurer. Luk…
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Recorded status: Verified current negative check; direct Ruano→CCI/Familias Unidas relationship remains unproven. Historical/vendor/referral relationship not excluded.
A fresh check of Community Council of Idaho's current official Board of Trustees page and Familias Unidas Legal Services staff page does not list Rolando Ruano. This is consistent with the earlier Idaho dairy/CCI pass-forward, which explicitly classified any direct Ruano employment, board, contract, or formal referral relationship with Community Council of Idaho / Familias Unidas as UNPROVEN. Ruano remains independently documented as an Idaho immigration/c…
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Recorded status: Verified direct payments from Article IV IRS Schedule C plus separately verified Prop 1 funding. Coordination or earmarking between recipient organizations is not established.
Article IV's 2024 IRS Form 990 Schedule C reports $225,000 of its funds contributed to section 527 political organizations: $170,000 to Defend and Protect Idaho, $25,000 to Montana State AFL-CIO, and $30,000 to Way Back PAC. Separately documented 2024 campaign-finance reporting shows Article IV contributed roughly $2.2 million to Idahoans for Open Primaries. This materially strengthens the network map: Article IV was not merely a donor that reappeared in I…
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Recorded status: Verified organizational/financial connection. Further donor tracing required for upstream funding and governance relationships.
For the 2024 Proposition 1 campaign, Luke Mayville served as a public spokesman for Idahoans for Open Primaries. Reclaim Idaho was a coalition member and made a $160,000 contribution to the campaign committee. Other formal coalition members included Mormon Women for Ethical Government, Veterans for Idaho Voters, Republicans for Open Primaries, North Idaho Women, and the Hope Coalition. This establishes an organizational and financial connection between Rec…
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Recorded status: PRIMARY VERIFIED grant-monitoring procedure. Specific conditions attached to Votes Idaho, CVI or Idahoans United grants remain undisclosed/unresolved.
Western Futures Fund’s primary IRS Schedule I describes an ongoing grant-oversight system rather than a write-check-and-disengage model. In response to Schedule I Part I line 2, WFF states that, to ensure compliance with all grant conditions, it uses a combination of written and verbal reports plus ongoing monitoring and interaction with grantees, with regular updates depending on the amount and term of the grant. WFF has direct documented Idaho grants inc…
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Recorded status: Verified organizational contact, grant and program relationships; no funding from Interfaith America to Common Ground or Idaho Solutions established.
Common Ground — United We Stand's December 2024 newsletter says Chenele Dixon and Charlie Conrad met with Interfaith America as part of their nationwide coalition-building effort. Separately, IRS-derived grant records identify a $16,000 Interfaith America grant to Mormon Women for Ethical Government Foundation in 2023. Interfaith America's own election-program materials describe its Faith in Elections Playbook, developed with Protect Democracy, and grant o…
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Recorded status: IRS leadership/financials and direct policy advocacy VERIFIED; Sixteen Thirty grant-to-salary or bill-specific expenditure is NOT established.
Idaho Voices for Children is another direct Sixteen Thirty Idaho recipient with identifiable local leadership and documented state-policy use. Sixteen Thirty’s 2024 filing reports a $110,740 direct grant to Idaho Voices for Children Foundation Inc. The recipient’s IRS filings identify Christine Tiddens as executive director; its most recent roster reports $45,231 in compensation for Tiddens, while FY2025 organization-wide financials report about $2.08 mill…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified from VAV's own funder disclosure and IRS Schedule-I-derived grant records. No earmarking/pass-through into Idaho established.
Veterans for All Voters (formerly Veterans for Political Innovation) is the national organization whose Idaho affiliate, Veterans for Idaho Voters (V4IV), was a formal member of Idahoans for Open Primaries alongside Reclaim Idaho. VAV's own FAQ names Unite America among its current foundational funders. IRS Schedule-I-derived records show Unite America Institute Inc. granted VAV $845,750 in FY2024 for general operating support, veteran recruitment, increas…
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Recorded status: Verified current membership/board/adviser relationships; membership does not imply common governance or funding.
The South Central Idaho Hispanic Chamber of Commerce’s current member directory lists Idaho Solutions Inc., with Chenele Dixon as executive director, as a chamber member. The same directory lists Community Council of Idaho–Twin Falls with Roy Villasenor as contact and Idaho Milk Products as a member. The chamber’s current board page identifies Alex Castaneda as president/CEO and Sergio Mendoza as treasurer with “Community Council” shown as an affiliation. …
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: PRIMARY/ORGANIZATIONAL records verify dairy PAC support and current Unity/Common Ground roles. Prior IdahoCabal negative grant search remains the current constraint: no direct major-funder grant to Idaho Solutions located. No WFF/1630 control or personal-benefit inference established.
Chenele Dixon is currently positioned at the intersection of several Idaho civic/political networks already mapped in this investigation. Idaho Dairy Industry PAC records show Dixon was endorsed in 2022 and 2024; the 2022 post-primary report says the PAC provided her a financial contribution and independent-expenditure support. After her 2024 primary loss, Idaho Dairymen's Association publicly honored Dixon, Linda Wright Hartgen, Greg Lanting and others as…
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Recorded status: PRIMARY VERIFIED grant, financials, public Schedule-B redaction and Arabella administration. Original donor provenance is publicly unavailable; illegality, laundering, Idaho earmarking and donor direction NOT established.
Impetus Fund provides a concrete example of legally nonpublic original-source money entering Sixteen Thirty Fund from an accumulated 501(c)(4) asset pool. Impetus Fund’s public Form 990 for the tax year July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025 reports only $508,582 in current-year contributions, $748,916 total revenue, and $15,185,025 in beginning-of-year net assets. It then reports $9,891,600 in grants paid, including a $7,700,000 cash grant to Sixteen Thirty F…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: PRIMARY VERIFIED from Idaho Sunshine; establishes a direct inter-entity financial transfer, but not parent/subsidiary status or broader control.
Idaho Secretary of State Sunshine records show the Reclaim Idaho political committee spent $3,000 on Reclaim Idaho Fund Inc. on June 22, 2022, categorized as Donation/Gift. Reclaim Idaho Fund Inc. is the separate 501(c)(4), EIN 86-3680412, whose FY2022 IRS-derived filing reports $93,333 in total contributions/revenue. This is direct evidence of a financial relationship between the Idaho political committee and the Reclaim 501(c)(4), resolving the prior que…
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Recorded status: Verified current self-description from MVP's own 2026 materials. Historical grant-purpose inference explicitly unresolved.
Movement Voter Project's official September 9, 2026 grantmaking strategy describes MVP as a 'mutual fund for political giving' that raises donor money and channels it to organizations doing year-round organizing, electoral work and advocacy. The current strategy identifies three pillars: expanding local organizing, scaling new media, and 'Embolden Democrats.' A September 10, 2026 release from affiliated Movement Voter PAC announced a $50 million commitment…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified reported/FEC-derived 2026 financial network. No direct Reclaim-to-2026-PAC connection established.
2026 reporting from Idaho campaign-finance and FEC data shows Defend and Protect Idaho as the largest-spending Idaho PAC in the May legislative primaries, with more than $752,800 in independent expenditures. Its major contributors included Way Back PAC, Article IV and Unite America PAC. Hometown Heroes contributed more than $65,000 to Defend and Protect Idaho; Hometown Heroes also received contributions from Take Back Idaho and other PACs. Idaho First rece…
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