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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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Recorded status: Current Sunshine-derived campaign-finance totals strongly indicate in-state funding predominance; separate 2024 WFF nonprofit grant remains documented. Do not characterize the 2026 campaign as outside-money dominated.
Current Sunshine-derived campaign-finance tracking materially constrains how the Western Futures→Idahoans United branch should be described. A current tracker built from Idaho Secretary of State Sunshine records reports Idahoans United for Women and Families raising about $1.634 million in 2026, with approximately $1.407 million categorized as in-state and approximately $226,000 as out-of-state, excluding about $1,151 without usable donor geography. Major …
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Recorded status: Verified direct event/personnel roles and Reclaim/SOSI partnership; funding/control/coordination beyond those roles not established.
Save Our Schools Idaho's official June 3, 2025 Twin Falls town-hall page identifies Chenele Dixon as moderator, explicitly describing her as Executive Director of Idaho Solutions and a former Idaho representative. Common Ground — United We Stand's own August 21, 2024 launch release identifies Dixon and Oregon Rep. Charlie Conrad as its founders. Thus Dixon is a documented personnel/event bridge between Save Our Schools Idaho, Idaho Solutions, and Common Gr…
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Recorded status: PRIMARY VERIFIED grant amounts/purposes plus verified Idaho campaign relationships; no Idaho earmarking or same-dollar tracing.
Unite America Institute’s primary 2023 Form 990 reveals a same-year concentration of grants to several national organizations that were directly involved in, affiliated with, or partnered around Idaho’s newly launched Open Primaries campaign. The filing reports: $500,000 to Veterans for Political Innovation for veteran recruitment, calls-to-action/actions, and veteran coalition development; $450,000 to Open Primaries Education Fund for a grassroots program…
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Recorded status: Verified personnel connection from court record and IRS-derived filing; no financial/control inference.
Reclaim Idaho Fund's IRS-derived filings list Yvonne 'Sam' Sandmire as a director. The Idaho Supreme Court's 2024 BABE VOTE v. McGrane decision identifies Sandmire as a BABE VOTE board member and discusses her declaration concerning that group's voter-registration activity. BABE VOTE's 2023 Form 990-EZ separately lists Yvonne Sam Sandmire as treasurer. This establishes a direct personnel connection between the Reclaim Idaho Fund leadership layer and a sepa…
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Recorded status: Verified direct NEA→Votes Idaho funding; purpose labels verified for 2019–20 payments. Any connection of those dollars to Reclaim's Invest in Idaho campaign remains unverified.
Federal labor disclosure records show the National Education Association made at least $123,500 in itemized political/lobbying payments to Votes Idaho Company across 2019–2020: $57,500 on April 25, 2019; $5,000 on Nov. 18, 2019 described as 'Mshp communication strategy'; and $61,000 on Feb. 20, 2020 described as 'Ballot Init support grant.' Votes Idaho's 2019 Form 990-EZ reported $142,530 in contributions, so the $57,500 NEA payment was a substantial ident…
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Recorded status: Verified officer identities and documented professional/organizing histories. Funding/control connection to Clemente's prior organizations remains unverified.
Project Reclaim Idaho Inc.'s FY2024 990-EZ lists Tracy Olson as president, Regina Clemente as secretary, and Deborah Silver as treasurer. Olson is not a new name to Reclaim: Boise State Public Radio identified Tracy Olson in May 2018 as the Ada/Canyon County co-leader of Reclaim Idaho during the Medicaid-expansion signature campaign. Clemente's current Trust Brigade biography describes organizing since 1996, past work with ACORN, Planned Parenthood, the LA…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Negative/limited-public-record check; no identifiable institutional grantmaker located in current searches.
Project Reclaim Idaho Inc. reported $11,600 in contributions and $11,600 in year-end net assets for FY2024, with zero expenses. Current searches by legal name and EIN did not surface a grantmaker Schedule I record identifying the source of those contributions. Because small donors and many individual contributions are not publicly disclosed, this is not evidence that no institutional or individual donor exists; it means the public sources located so far do…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified founding-board affiliations and Nettinga's Reclaim litigation participation. Identity of Hannah Brass-Grange with later Hannah Brass Greer is strongly supported by name/role records but use cautious wording if exact surname-transition proof is needed.
A 2014 Idaho new-corporation record for Votes Idaho Company lists John Reuter, Robin Nettinga, and Hannah Brass-Grange as directors, and Shelley Landry as filing party, incorporator, and registered agent. Contemporaneous/official records identify Reuter as then executive director of Conservation Voters for Idaho; Nettinga as executive director of the Idaho Education Association and a political treasurer for IEA-PACE; Hannah Brass as political treasurer of …
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified organizational grant relationships; no same-dollar tracing or Idaho earmarking.
Hopewell Fund now has three separately documented organizational funding routes into entities that are themselves major Western Futures Fund funders. IRS-derived 2020-2024 data show Hopewell→New Venture Fund $26.6M across five grants; Hopewell→Sixteen Thirty Fund $22.5M across five grants; and Hopewell→Global Impact $19.5M across four grants. Western Futures Fund’s identified funders include Sixteen Thirty Fund $5.1M (largest), Global Impact Social Welfare…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified from Idaho News 6 reporting plus contemporaneous 2025 legislative records. This upgrades the Idaho Solutions↔Reclaim relationship from one direct 2026 event plus indirect 2025 SOSI route to repeated direct event-level interaction across cycles. No money/control inference.
A stronger direct Idaho Solutions↔Reclaim relationship predating the September 2026 HJR4 event has been found in Idaho News 6 reporting from the 2025 legislative-session debate over initiative restrictions. Idaho News 6 reports that an Idaho Solutions-hosted 90-minute forum in Twin Falls included Reclaim Idaho executive director Luke Mayville (the article misspells his surname as "Mayfield"), former Idaho Attorney General Jim Jones, and Twin Falls physicia…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified upstream relationships from state campaign-finance records and IRS Form 990-derived records. Idaho earmarking/pass-through unverified.
Way Back PAC, which gave $250,000 to Idahoans for Open Primaries in the 2024 campaign, received $100,000 from Western Futures Fund on October 10, 2024 and $75,000 from Unite America PAC on October 11, 2024 in Wyoming campaign-finance records. Western Futures Fund's FY2024 Form 990 reports receiving $2.8 million from Sixteen Thirty Fund, $1.8 million from New Venture Fund, $500,000 from Guardian of Rights Fund, $450,000 from Civic Truth Coalition, and $30,0…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: PRIMARY/IRS-DERIVED VERIFIED: 3 independent governing members; Hennesy president, Krones treasurer, Hirsch secretary; Blue Moon day-to-day management separately primary verified. Grant-selection and Idaho-target decision rights remain unresolved.
Western Futures Fund’s governance/operations split can now be described more precisely. Its FY2024 Form 990 reports three voting members of the governing body and three independent voting members, with no reported family/business relationships among officers/directors. Part VII identifies Michael Hennesy as president, Jeremy Krones as treasurer and Christopher Hirsch as secretary, each with $0 reportable compensation from WFF. Separately, WFF’s Schedule O …
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Leadership, direct WFF grant, initiative sponsorship and 2026 committee expenditures verified. WFF grant use for specific expenditures is not established.
Idahoans United for Women and Families is a second major Idaho endpoint. Its official About page identifies Melanie Folwell as executive director. Its FY2024 filing lists five directors: Rev. Mike Conner, Cynthia Dalsing, Linda Dixon, Summer Jackman and Florina Ruvio. Western Futures Fund directly granted Idahoans United $60,000 in 2024 for general purpose, and the organization later became sponsor of the qualified 2026 Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified organizational grant relationships with strict separation of Open Society entities; Idaho earmarking/personal Soros attribution not established.
The Open Society layer now resolves into two distinct legal/institutional routes that must not be collapsed. Route A: Foundation to Promote Open Society (a separate Open Society philanthropic entity already documented elsewhere) gave Hopewell Fund approximately $28.3M across 13 grants from 2020-2024; Hopewell then funded Unite America Institute, Article IV, The Fairness Project, New Venture Fund, Sixteen Thirty Fund, and Global Impact, all of which sit on …
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified current-governance negative check. Separate EINs and officer slates established; repeated collaboration remains separately verified. Informal coordination/contractual relationships are not ruled out.
Current public governance records do not show common officers/directors among Reclaim Idaho Fund, Idaho Solutions Inc./Idaho Solutions Foundation, and Common Ground — United We Stand. Reclaim Idaho Fund’s FY2024 Form 990 lists Luke Mayville, Yvonne Sandmire and Ann Marie Johnson as directors. Idaho Solutions Foundation’s FY2025 filing lists Linda Hartgen, Chenele Dixon, Cindy Wilson and Stephanie Snarr; Idaho Solutions Inc.’s FY2025 filing identifies Chene…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified from Oregon legislative records, V4IV self-description and Idaho court/coalition records. Common control/shared funding not established.
Oregon Legislature public-testimony documents for the 2025 Unified Primary Act and 2026 HJR 201/Voter Fairness effort list Common Ground United We Stand and Veterans for All Voters together among Oregon Election Reform Coalition participants/supporters. A February 5, 2026 Oregon legislative record separately lists Charlie Conrad testifying in support for Common Ground — United We Stand and Jordan Baxter testifying in support for Veterans for All Voters. Ve…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: PRIMARY-DOCUMENT TIMELINE VERIFIED; same-dollar tracing explicitly NOT established. Preserve as temporal/cash-flow lead only.
A transaction-level timeline can now be fixed without attributing the same dollars. Contours' grant letter to Western Futures is dated April 24, 2025 and says the $350,000 general-support funding would be delivered only after Contours received the WFF acknowledgment. Kelly Poduch signed that acknowledgment for WFF on April 25. Four days later, on April 29, Way Back PAC's primary FEC Schedule A reports a $125,000 receipt from Western Futures Fund. The tempo…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified targeted negative search. Institutional Open Society-related upstream funding exists elsewhere in the network, but no direct personal Soros payment/earmark to Reclaim or Idaho Solutions was found.
A targeted search for a direct personal George Soros financial relationship with Reclaim Idaho, Reclaim Idaho Fund, Idaho Solutions Inc., or Idaho Solutions Foundation did not locate a contribution, grant, payment, or earmarked transfer from George Soros personally to any of those entities. The strongest historical Soros-related Idaho claim found traces to 2018-2019 criticism of the Medicaid campaign: contemporaneous Coeur d’Alene Press reporting described…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Current committee totals verified; official issue-first self-description verified. No candidate-specific 2026 expenditure/endorsement found in current search; itemized Sunshine ledger still inaccessible through available web interface.
The current 2026-cycle public record confirms substantial Reclaim Idaho political-committee activity but still does not establish candidate-specific spending or endorsements. Transparency USA currently reports Reclaim Idaho at $396,106.85 in 2026-cycle contributions and $88,739.50 in expenditures, with no loans. Reclaim’s own current website says its campaigns focus "not on political candidates or political parties" but on issues, while its theory of chang…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: PRIMARY VERIFIED from Sixteen Thirty Fund FY2024 Schedule I. Direct 2024 Boise grants: Votes Idaho $163K; Idaho Voices for Children $110,740. WNN→Gem State remains indirect and separately constrained.
Sixteen Thirty Fund’s own FY2024 Schedule I directly lists two Idaho-address grantees located in Boise: Votes Idaho, EIN 46-5415188, received $163,000 for “civil rights, social action, advocacy”; Idaho Voices for Children Foundation Inc., EIN 82-0478703, received $110,740 for the same broad purpose category. Together those two direct Idaho-address grants total $273,740 in the 2024 filing. The same Schedule I separately lists a $600,000 grant to Washington,…
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