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Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified legal entity/website/officer data and contemporaneous caucus participation; donor visibility limited.
A separate nonprofit legal entity, Mainstreet Idaho Caucus Inc. (EIN 93-2252543), reports www.idahomainstreet.org as its website. IRS-derived FY2023 filing data show about $61,000 in revenue, approximately $38,000 in expenses and $23,000 in net assets, with Gretchen Clelland as president, Brian Garrett as treasurer, Jeff Sayer as secretary and Rep. Josh Wheeler as executive director. Current tax-exempt directories classify the entity as a 501(c)(4) social-…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Current board/executive structure and concrete Idaho election tactics verified. Specific upstream grant dollars cannot be assigned to individual tactics without earmark records.
Conservation Voters for Idaho provides a highly documented Idaho use endpoint for the national funding routes already mapped through League of Conservation Voters, Sixteen Thirty Fund and Western Futures Fund. CVI’s current board page lists Collin Todd as chair, Mike Lanza as vice chair, Mark Nail as treasurer, Michelle Cooper as secretary and board members including Chuck Coiner, Mat Erpelding, Chantel Greene, Renee Hill, Mike McIntyre and Caitlin Cornfor…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: IRS-derived outgoing grants and federal disclosure rule verified; original Guardian contributors are not identified in public annual-return data.
Guardian of Rights Fund (EIN 88-2922670) is a 501(c)(4)-type social-welfare grantmaker whose reported relationship with Western Futures Fund is specifically election-facing. IRS-derived grant datasets report $1.4 million from Guardian to Western Futures across two grants in 2023-2024 and describe the Western Futures awards as “electoral purpose”; Guardian also reported a separate $250,000 grant to Way Back PAC. Guardian’s FY2024 filing reports approximatel…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified institutional funding chain with primary Sixteen Thirty Idaho grant records. Personal Soros→specific Idaho expenditure, earmarking and operational control are NOT established.
The George Soros/Open Society branch can now be stated as a documented institutional funding chain into organizations that directly funded Idaho advocacy groups, with a strict same-dollar firewall. Open Society Foundations identifies George Soros as its founder and states he has given more than $32 billion of his personal fortune to the Open Society Foundations. Open Society identifies Open Society Policy Center (OSPC) as its 501(c)(4) advocacy affiliate; …
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: IRS/PRIMARY VERIFIED major reciprocal Sixteen Thirty↔North Fund relationship; IRS-derived 2020–24 totals ≈$40.5M 1630→North and ≈$24.7M North→1630; FEC-bulk North→Way Back $300K. Same-dollar recycling/Idaho earmarking NOT established.
The North Fund branch is materially larger than the single-year transactions first documented. IRS-derived grant aggregation for 2020–2024 reports North Fund receiving approximately $45.0 million from New Venture Fund and $40.5 million from Sixteen Thirty Fund; Sixteen Thirty’s own grantee aggregation likewise reports approximately $40.5 million to North Fund across five years. In the other direction, North Fund’s grantee aggregation reports approximately …
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: CVI governance and documented Idaho electoral tactics verified; donor-to-specific-mailer/canvass/levy expenditure tracing is NOT established.
The Western Futures/League of Conservation Voters→Conservation Voters for Idaho branch now has clearer Idaho steering and use. IRS-derived records show Western Futures Fund gave CVI $145,000 in 2023 and League of Conservation Voters gave CVI about $1.3 million across five annual grants from 2020–2024; Sixteen Thirty Fund separately gave LCV about $40.2 million over 2020–2024. CVI’s current board is chaired by Collin Todd, with Mike Lanza as vice chair, Mar…
Read note and sources →Open question · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Strong functional/personnel alignment; formal affiliation unresolved.
Reclaim Idaho's current donation page identifies Reclaim Idaho as a 501(c)(4) and says donors interested in supporting 'tax-deductible voter education work' should contact Reclaim at its own email address. Project Reclaim Idaho Inc. is a separate Twin Falls 501(c)(3), tax-exempt since March 2024, whose stated purpose is empowering Idahoans in bottom-up grassroots advocacy through training, education and resources. Its officers are Tracy Olson, Regina Cleme…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified personnel roles and formal coalition membership. Individual strategic role, funding and common control not established.
Idaho Solutions Foundation Inc.'s FY2025 IRS-derived Form 990-EZ lists Cindy Wilson as vice president. Mormon Women for Ethical Government's official biography identifies Wilson as MWEG's Idaho State Director and says she currently serves on the boards of Idaho Children Are Primary, Take Back Idaho, and Idaho Solutions. Idahoans for Open Primaries' official site and the Idaho Supreme Court identify the Idaho Chapter of Mormon Women for Ethical Government a…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: PRIMARY VERIFIED from annual Schedule C filings. Political-campaign amounts are distinct from ordinary grants/project operations; Idaho attribution and upstream donor earmarking NOT established.
Sixteen Thirty Fund’s own Schedule C filings establish that it is not only an issue-advocacy grantmaker/fiscal sponsor; it also reported very large amounts of direct and indirect political-campaign activity under federal tax reporting rules. Primary filings report political-campaign activity expenditures of $167,053,525 in 2020, $13,860,361 in 2021, $66,401,198 in 2022, $13,080,029 in 2023, and $78,008,755 in 2024. Those five annual figures sum to $338,403…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: IRS FORM 8872/PROPUBLICA VERIFIED Toolbox structure, leadership, contributors and Way Back payments; FEC-bulk-derived current-cycle Toolbox→Way Back total $650K. Donor-to-Idaho same-dollar tracing and strategic direction are NOT established.
Toolbox, an Arlington, Virginia Section 527 political organization (EIN 88-3259830), is now a separately identifiable upstream Way Back PAC funding branch. ProPublica’s IRS Form 8872-based 527 Explorer reports Toolbox’s stated purpose as supporting grassroots organizations and projects to advance democracy, identifies Jay R. Halfon as president and Pamela Gilbert as treasurer/secretary, and reports approximately $11 million in all-time contributions and $9…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified negative search across current indexed grantmaker records; absence of a reported grant is not proof of no funding relationship. Idaho Solutions FY2025 donor identities remain unresolved.
A targeted recipient-name/EIN and grantmaker-Schedule-I search did not identify Idaho Solutions Inc. (EIN 33-2605998) or Idaho Solutions Foundation Inc. (EIN 39-5049634) among reported grant recipients of Hopewell Fund, Unite America Institute, New Venture Fund, or Sixteen Thirty Fund in the currently indexed grant years searched. Funderscope states its grantmaker pages are built from the filers own Form 990 Schedule I data and that Schedule I recipient re…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: PRIMARY/IRS-derived leadership, direct grant and policy activity verified. Sixteen Thirty earmarking to a specific bill or personal direction is NOT established.
The direct Sixteen Thirty→Idaho Voices for Children branch also has identifiable Idaho decision-makers and legislative uses. Sixteen Thirty’s 2024 Schedule I reports a $110,740 cash grant to Idaho Voices for Children Foundation Inc. for civil rights, social action and advocacy. IRS-derived FY2024 records list Christine Tiddens as executive director, Diane Garvey as president and Greg Satz as treasurer; the filing reports a 13-member independent governing b…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Strong circumstantial identity match; NOT yet conclusive. Do not merge the two AnnMarie/Ann Marie Johnson nodes without a unique identifier or explicit cross-identification.
Reclaim Idaho Fund's FY2024 IRS-derived filing lists an 'Ann Marie Johnson' as a director alongside Luke Mayville and Yvonne Sandmire. Separate contemporaneous Proposition 1 records identify AnnMarie Johnson of Boise as Zeke Johnson's wife/partner in the initiative effort: reporting says Zeke and AnnMarie Johnson contributed $100,250 to Idahoans for Open Primaries, and Bruce Newcomb wrote that the Proposition 1 concept began in a dinner conversation involv…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified from Hopewell primary Schedule I for Unite America and IRS-derived Article IV funding data. Institutional funding established; Idaho earmarking remains unsupported.
Hopewell Fund’s primary Schedule I records strengthen the no-pass-through firewall in Glenneda’s article. Hopewell’s 2022 Form 990 Schedule I lists an $850,000 cash grant to Unite America Institute with the broad purpose "Civil rights, social action, advocacy." Its 2023 Schedule I lists another $500,000 to Unite America Institute with the same broad purpose. Hopewell’s 2022 grant to Article IV is reported at approximately $433,108; public IRS-derived recor…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: IRS-DERIVED + PRIMARY GRANT LETTER VERIFIED for GISWF→Contours $6.62M and Contours→WFF $350K; Inside Elections reports at least $750K Contours→WFF total in 2025, later increment not yet primary-reproduced. No same-dollar pass-through inference.
IRS-derived FY2024 grant records show Global Impact Social Welfare Foundation (GISWF) gave Contours Inc. $6.62 million for program support. Contours was formed Dec. 27, 2024 and later disclosed in its Sept. 4, 2025 IRS exemption correspondence that it had made a $350,000 grant to Western Futures Fund year-to-date; the attached grant letter confirms that WFF grant and its terms. Inside Elections reported in August 2026 that Contours had reported at least $7…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified Project Reclaim FY2024 c3 status/financials/officers and current Reclaim tax-deductible voter-education solicitation. Exact formal affiliation remains unresolved.
IRS-derived FY2024 Form 990-EZ data for Project Reclaim Idaho Inc. (EIN 93-4744691) reports $11,600 in contributions, $0 expenses, $11,600 in year-end net assets, and officers Tracy Olson (president), Regina Clemente (secretary), and Deborah Silver (treasurer). The organization is recognized as a 501(c)(3) educational alliance/advocacy organization and contributions are tax deductible. Reclaim Idaho's current donation FAQ separately states that Reclaim Ida…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: PRIMARY-DOCUMENT VERIFIED from Contours' signed IRS response and attached WFF grant letter. Establishes mission alignment, conditions and reporting; explicitly cuts against an inference that Contours earmarked the $350K for a particular WFF political expenditure or downstream Idaho recipient.
A September 4, 2025 Contours Inc. response to an IRS Form 1024-A information request includes the actual representative grant letter for Contours' April 2025 grant to Western Futures Fund. The letter confirms a $350,000 general-support grant after an April 10, 2025 solicitation from WFF. It describes the grant as assisting WFF with its mission to 'resurrect statewide political competition in rural red states, west of the Mississippi.' The grant term ran Ap…
Read note and sources →Open question · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Strong identity lead; unresolved. Do not treat as verified same person yet.
Reclaim Idaho Fund's 2024 Form 990 lists an Ann Marie Johnson as a director alongside Luke Mayville and Yvonne Sandmire. Separately, Zeke and AnnMarie Johnson of Boise contributed $100,250 to Idahoans for Open Primaries; Bruce Newcomb says Proposition 1 originated in a dinner conversation involving him, his wife, Zeke and AnnMarie Johnson; and reporting credits AnnMarie Johnson with helping raise substantial in-state support for the campaign. The uncommon …
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: CONTEMPORANEOUS IDAHO CAMPAIGN-FINANCE REPORTING VERIFIED candidate-level convergence. Coordination, common control and shared strategy are not established.
Contemporaneous May 14, 2026 Idaho Education News reporting provides a transaction-level example where separate Idaho establishment/business and WFF/Way Back-linked structures converged on the same legislative race. In the District 28 Senate primary, Idaho Prosperity Fund, which is aligned with the Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry, had spent $72,392 supporting Sen. Jim Guthrie as of May 14; Idaho Liberty PAC had spent $72,771 supporting Guthrie a…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified personnel continuity and Idaho/TBI link; no Unite America→Forward Party Victory Fund money transfer established.
The Forward Party's current CEO, Lindsey Williams Drath, joined Forward directly from Unite America, where Forward's own biography says she served as Senior Vice President of Investor Relations and launched the Unite America Network, raising and deploying substantial funds for democracy-reform campaigns. Unite America was a major national funder of Idahoans for Open Primaries in 2024. Separately, Take Back Idaho chair Jennifer Ellis became the Idaho repres…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: High-confidence identity hypothesis, not yet conclusive. Do not state as established that Prop 1 co-originator/donor AnnMarie Johnson is the Reclaim Idaho Fund director until a unique identifier or explicit biography links them.
Reclaim Idaho Fund's 2024 IRS-derived filing lists an 'Ann Marie Johnson' as a director with Luke Mayville and Yvonne Sandmire. Separately, Zeke and AnnMarie Johnson of Boise were six-figure Idahoans for Open Primaries donors, and Bruce Newcomb says the Proposition 1 concept originated in a dinner conversation involving himself, his wife, Zeke Johnson and AnnMarie Johnson. A 2017 Idaho Department of Lands administrative record places Zeke Johnson, AnnMarie…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified c4 funding and Idaho volunteer mobilization; Idaho earmarking/transfer not established.
FairVote Action Fund (EIN 38-3650370), the 501(c)(4) sister/partner organization of FairVote, directly promoted Idaho’s 2024 Proposition 1 campaign and urged supporters to volunteer for the “Yes on 1” campaign. FairVote’s own site identifies FairVote Action as its partner 501(c)(4), and FairVote Action describes its role as campaigning/lobbying to win ranked-choice voting reforms. IRS-derived FY2024 records show FairVote Action received $400,000 from Actio…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified personnel/administrative links from campaign records, court filing, IRS-derived filing and contemporaneous reporting. No funding/control inference made regarding Silver's former political or nonprofit affiliations.
Deborah Silver is documented across multiple Reclaim layers. A 2019 Idaho campaign-finance filing identifies her as Reclaim Idaho's political treasurer. In July 2024 litigation, the certificate of service identified both Deborah Silver and Luke Mayville with Reclaim Idaho Fund, Inc. at 1401 Poplar Avenue in Twin Falls. Project Reclaim Idaho Inc.'s FY2024 990-EZ identifies Silver as treasurer. Separately, 2014 reporting described Silver as a Twin Falls CPA,…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified legal-entity continuity, FY2023 revenue, direct New Venture grant and contemporaneous advocacy. Specific expenditure-by-grant tracing not established.
The legal entity that operated as Neighbors for Boise, EIN 93-1391633, is now identified in IRS-derived records as Gem State Housing Alliance Inc and continues to use the neighborsforboise.com domain. Its FY2023 filing reports exactly $177,000 in total revenue, all contributions. Grantmaker records identify a $177,000 FY2023 grant from New Venture Fund to Neighbors for Boise Inc, EIN 93-1391633, for civil-rights/social-action/advocacy purposes. Thus the id…
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