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Open question · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Strong circumstantial lead; direct c4-to-c3 operational/fundraising linkage not yet verified.
Reclaim Idaho's current donation page explicitly says Reclaim Idaho is a 501(c)(4), donations are not tax-deductible, and people wishing to support 'tax-deductible voter education work' should contact info@reclaimidaho.org. Separately, Project Reclaim Idaho Inc. is a 501(c)(3) with Reclaim branding, officers tied to Reclaim, and an education/advocacy classification. This makes Project Reclaim Idaho a plausible candidate for the tax-deductible voter-educati…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Primary/IRS-derived grants and WORC/IORC network relationship verified. No 1630→WFF→IORC same-dollar chain is established.
Sixteen Thirty Fund and Western Futures Fund both funded the same regional 501(c)(4) organizing infrastructure, Western Organization of Resource Councils (WORC), which publicly lists Idaho Organization of Resource Councils (IORC) as its Idaho member group. Sixteen Thirty’s primary 2022 Schedule I reports two separate same-year grants: $2.225 million to Western Futures Fund and $60,000 to Western Organization of Resource Councils, both described as civil ri…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: PRIMARY VERIFIED from Idaho Secretary of State voter pamphlet; establishes direct leadership overlap between Reclaim and the Proposition 2 campaign committee.
Idaho Secretary of State’s official 2018 Voter Information Pamphlet lists Idahoans for Healthcare as the committee advocating YES on Proposition 2 and names Christy Perry and Emily Strizich as co-chairmen, with Bruce Belzer as treasurer. Contemporary reporting independently identifies Emily Strizich as a Reclaim Idaho co-founder and says she was introduced as Idahoans for Healthcare co-chair. This establishes a direct leadership bridge between Reclaim Idah…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified from Farm Bureau endorsement material and Dixon/Idaho Solutions public event promotion; sponsorship payment amount/purpose not established.
Idaho Farm Bureau Federation PAC endorsement material for the 2022 cycle lists Chenele Dixon for District 24 House A and Gregory Lanting for District 25 House B; 2024 reporting also identifies Dixon as a Farm Bureau-supported candidate. After Dixon left the Legislature, her public Idaho Solutions promotion identifies an immigration lecture as sponsored by Idaho Solutions, Idaho Farm Bureau Federation and Mormon Women for Ethical Government. This establishe…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Current lobbyist status corroborated; Idaho Values First client detail requires primary lobbyist profile/report before upgrading.
A current Idaho lobbyist directory independently lists Rolando Ruano as a registered Idaho lobbyist. Secondary 2026 reporting identifies him as the registered lobbyist for Idaho Values First, but the currently accessible public lobbyist interface did not expose a primary client/subject detail page in this research pass. Therefore the correct evidentiary treatment is: Ruano's current lobbyist status is corroborated; Idaho Values First as the represented cli…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified direct organization-to-organization funding connection. Clemente personnel overlap is verified, but her role in the grant decision is unverified and must not be inferred.
IRS Schedule I-derived grant data identifies a $65,000 grant in tax year 2022 from All Hands on Deck Network Inc. (EIN 37-1697474) to Reclaim Idaho Fund. Movement Voter Project's own current FAQ says Movement Voter Project is a 501(c)(4) legally registered under the corporate name All Hands on Deck Network, EIN 37-1697474. Reclaim Idaho Fund reported $93,333 in total contributions/revenue in 2022, making the $65,000 grant a substantial portion of its repor…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified separate organizational identities. Preserve as an explicit identity firewall.
Public records establish that “Common Ground USA” (CG-USA) is the U.S. program of Search for Common Ground, a Washington, D.C.-based 501(c)(3) with EIN 52-1257425. Search for Common Ground launched CG-USA in 2021 and identifies Nealin Parker as its executive director. This is not the same organization as Chenele Dixon and Charlie Conrad’s Common Ground—United We Stand, the Kimberly, Idaho 501(c)(3) with EIN 33-2300740 and PO Box 859. A Journal of Democracy…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified national grants plus Idaho personnel/co-sponsorship relationship; no earmarking or pass-through to Idaho Solutions established.
IRS-derived Schedule I data show Unite America Institute funded Mormon Women for Ethical Government Foundation with $110,000 across two grants in 2023-2024, including $85,000 in FY2024. MWEG Foundation’s FY2024 filing also reports $30,000 from New Venture Fund and other institutional grants. Separately, the College of Southern Idaho’s official event page for Sept. 22, 2025 states that the Keith Allred lecture “Beyond the Noise: Why Civil Discourse Still Ma…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified personnel and campaign-formation bridge. No finding of organizational control or Reclaim/Take Back financial coordination.
Bruce Newcomb is listed on Take Back Idaho's board. Idahoans for Open Primaries' own site lists him as campaign treasurer. In a November 2024 guest column, Newcomb wrote that Proposition 1 began at a dinner conversation involving him, his wife, and Zeke and AnnMarie Johnson, after which they connected with grassroots leaders and launched Idahoans for Open Primaries in May 2023. Luke Mayville separately described Newcomb as one of the founders of the campai…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: PRIMARY WFF/FEC operational roles verified; Blue Moon’s organization-supplied service description independently confirms fractional COO/multi-entity advocacy operations model. Governance/control beyond disclosed roles remains unproved.
Western Futures Fund’s FY2024 Form 990 states that Blue Moon Strategies is responsible for WFF’s day-to-day operations. Way Back PAC’s Jan. 14, 2026 FEC Statement of Organization names Western Futures Fund as its Connected Organization and lists Jonah Meyers as assistant treasurer/designated agent. Way Back filings also document recurring Blue Moon strategic-consulting payments. Blue Moon’s current organization/recruiting description adds important operati…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: 2023 Jannus grant and historical Idaho Voices-as-Jannus-program relationship verified; 2024 Idaho Voices grant separately verified. Project earmarking and current legal affiliation remain unresolved.
A second direct Sixteen Thirty funding lane reaches the same broader Idaho child/family policy infrastructure now represented by Idaho Voices for Children. Sixteen Thirty’s 2023 grant records report a $56,000 grant to Jannus Inc. (EIN 81-6035382), Boise, for civil rights, social action and advocacy. Jannus’s own historical Form 990 Schedule O lists Idaho Voices for Children among its doing-business-as/program names, and Idaho Voices’ 2021 materials explici…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified from federal-court declaration and Idaho Supreme Court opinion; no common-control inference beyond stated roles.
A 2020 federal-court declaration identifies Ashley Prince as Reclaim Idaho's Field Director during the Invest in Idaho initiative effort. The Idaho Supreme Court's 2023 opinion later identifies Prince as a Reclaim employee since 2021 working as a campaign manager while simultaneously serving as campaign manager for the Idahoans for Open Primaries initiative campaign. This establishes cross-cycle operational continuity: the same Reclaim organizer moved from…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Arabella role, Blue Moon role/model and Way Back consulting are documented. Direct Arabella control of WFF/Way Back is not established; WFF day-to-day Blue Moon role remains secondary pending primary extraction.
Jonah Meyers provides a documented personnel/operations continuity across Arabella Advisors, Blue Moon Strategies and Way Back PAC. University of Maryland reported in 2019 that Meyers was promoted to Associate Director, Managed Organizations at Arabella Advisors. Arabella’s own fiscal-sponsorship white paper lists Jonah Meyers among Arabella Advisors contributors, corroborating work inside the firm’s sponsored/managed-organization practice. Current LinkedI…
Read note and sources →Open question · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Payment magnitude verified from Sunshine-derived aggregations; vendor legal identity, principals, address and exact service descriptions not yet reproduced from primary Idaho transaction rows.
Campaign Associates LLC is currently the largest identifiable vendor/payee in Idahoans United’s 2026 initiative campaign and therefore a high-priority 'who gets paid' research target. Transparency USA’s current Idaho aggregation reports $546,967.25 paid to Campaign Associates LLC, while a newer Sunshine-derived Prop 1 tracker using data through Aug. 14, 2026 reports approximately $608,967 paid to the same vendor, indicating additional later payments or a l…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: PRIMARY local governance and current external-funding/use pattern verified from official site/FEC-linked reporting. Candidate support/opposition totals are contemporaneous reporting from Idaho filings; donor direction beyond documented outreach is NOT established.
Defend and Protect Idaho provides a concrete example of outside money being absorbed by an Idaho-controlled PAC and then deployed into Idaho legislative races. The PAC’s official site identifies Judith Ellis as treasurer. Contemporary Idaho reporting identifies retired Ada County Sheriff Gary Raney as chair. Idaho Capital Sun reported that Way Back PAC contributed $350,000 in 2026 and quoted Raney saying Way Back reached out to his group and was interested…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: IRS-derived reciprocal Sixteen Thirty↔GISWF and GISWF→WFF relationships verified; same-dollar recycling or earmarking is not established.
Global Impact Social Welfare Foundation/Fund (GISWF, EIN 92-0652730) creates another multi-directional relationship around Western Futures Fund. IRS-derived records show Sixteen Thirty Fund gave GISWF approximately $2.3 million in 2023. GISWF separately gave Western Futures Fund $3.0 million across two grants in 2022-2023. IRS-derived records also show GISWF gave Sixteen Thirty Fund approximately $1.8 million across 2023-2024. GISWF itself received much la…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: PRIMARY VERIFIED candidate→vendor payments; V4IV→Sunnybrook $35K remains strong secondary aggregation until its underlying row is reproduced. Shared vendor does not prove client coordination.
Idaho Secretary of State Sunshine search results independently confirm Sunnybrook Strategies payments by multiple Idaho candidates in the broader Main Street-aligned orbit. Indexed Sunshine results show Gregory Lanting paying Sunnybrook Strategies $700 in the 2023-24 cycle; Stephanie Mickelsen paying Sunnybrook Strategies $1,300 in the 2024 primary cycle; Joshua Wheeler paying Sunnybrook Strategies Management $650 in the 2022 cycle; and Jack Nelsen making …
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: IRS-derived funding, governance, compensation and program-use facts verified. Donor control of specific Idaho campaigns or partner organizations is NOT established.
Votes Idaho provides a second, non-PAC model for how outside funding is steered after reaching Idaho. IRS-derived grant records report approximately $562,000 from Western Futures Fund to Votes Idaho across 2022–2024 and approximately $193,000 from Sixteen Thirty Fund across 2022 and 2024. Votes Idaho’s FY2024 filing identifies Colin Nash as executive director, Matt Compton as board chair, Mistie DelliCarpini-Tolman and Caitlin Barnard as board members, wit…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified cross-cycle personnel roles from Take Back Idaho, contemporaneous reporting and Ellis's 2024 advocacy. No common-control inference.
Jennifer Ellis is documented as chair/president of Take Back Idaho and a former president of the Idaho Cattle Association. In 2024 she publicly advocated for Proposition 1 and was identified as a supporter of Idahoans for Open Primaries. On August 20, 2026 Take Back Idaho announced that Ellis had signed on as the Idaho representative of the Forward Party Victory Fund, a newly formed federal super PAC supporting independent candidates, including Idaho U.S. …
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified separate organization, leadership roles, Nash Reclaim activity, and IRS-derived funder overlap. No organizational-control inference.
Votes Idaho Company (EIN 46-5415188) is a Boise 501(c)(4) whose 2024 filing describes work on election-process/voting-rights education and research and facilitation/coordination among issue-advocacy groups. Its current executive director is Colin Nash, whom Boise reporting describes as having been active in Reclaim Idaho's Medicaid-expansion initiative. Its current board chair is Matt Compton, associate executive director of the Idaho Education Association…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified from filed court pleading; underlying Idaho corporate filing still pending. No common-control inference with Reclaim or Take Back Idaho.
The Idaho Attorney General's verified district-court complaint filed August 16, 2024 states that Idahoans for Open Primaries Inc. was formed as an Idaho nonprofit organization on August 6, 2024 and that its publicly named directors included Bruce Newcomb, Chuck Coiner, Gary Raney, and Jennifer Ellis. The same complaint distinguishes the incorporated entity from the earlier unincorporated Idahoans for Open Primaries association, whose member organizations i…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: PRIMARY organizational model and named-project grants verified. Fiscal sponsorship architecture established; illegality, concealment intent and Idaho project destination NOT inferred.
Sixteen Thirty Fund’s own current materials establish that it is not merely a conventional grantmaker: it operates a fiscal-sponsorship platform. Its approach page says interested projects can be incubated under Sixteen Thirty, Sixteen Thirty becomes the project’s fiscal sponsor, the project sources funding, and when a foundation or other funder donates to support that project the fiscal sponsor receives the donation on the project’s behalf. Sixteen Thirty…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: IRS-derived recurring grant relationships verified; CVI Idaho electoral/policy activity separately verified. Sixteen Thirty→LCV→CVI same-dollar pass-through and Idaho earmarking NOT established.
A substantially stronger recurring Sixteen Thirty→Idaho funding architecture is documented through the League of Conservation Voters (LCV). IRS-derived records show Sixteen Thirty Fund gave LCV approximately $40.2 million across five grants from 2020 through 2024. Available year-specific records include about $18.9M in 2021, $5.2M in 2022, $825K in 2023 and $11.8M in 2024, with the multi-year aggregate totaling about $40.2M. Separately, LCV awarded Conserv…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified from funder Schedule I and recipient IRS-derived financials. Control/earmarking not established.
Western Futures Fund's 2022 Schedule I reports a $486,750 general-purpose grant to Votes Idaho Company. Votes Idaho's FY2022 Form 990-EZ reports total revenue of $516,750, all contributions. Therefore the single documented Western Futures grant equaled approximately 94.19% of Votes Idaho's entire reported revenue for FY2022. This establishes Western Futures as a dominant identified funder of Votes Idaho in that year. It does not establish that Western Futu…
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