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Research finding · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: PRIMARY VERIFIED 2024 Schedule B and IRS reporting rule. Top-six concentration quantified; some contributor amounts independently match grantmakers, but remaining identities must not be guessed.
Sixteen Thirty Fund’s own 2024 public Form 990 Schedule B provides a direct measure of contributor concentration while leaving contributor identities unavailable in the public record. The Schedule B lists 218 substantial contributors by numbered entry and contribution amount. The six largest entries are $58,932,923, $51,375,000, $29,175,000, $22,000,000, $10,000,000 and $8,408,566, totaling $179,891,489. The public contributor-name/address fields are blank…
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Recorded status: Verified national c4 grant purpose and official Idaho campaign involvement; exact Idaho earmarking and local legal-entity status unresolved.
RepresentUs provides another national-to-Idaho route inside the Open Primaries ecosystem. Idaho Capital Sun’s May 2, 2023 launch report identifies “Represent US Idaho” as one of the organizations collaborating with Reclaim Idaho, the Idaho Task Force of Veterans for Political Innovation, North Idaho Women and Hope Coalition to form Idahoans for Open Primaries. RepresentUs’ own 2024 campaign hub subsequently identified Idaho Proposition 1 as one of its voti…
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Recorded status: CURRENT PRIMARY/AGGREGATED VERIFIED corporate overlap and separate IACI PAC governance. No evidence IACI directed St. Luke’s/Micron/Idaho Power Victory Fund contributions or controls Idaho Victory/Liberty.
Current records show a corporate-network overlap between IACI and the Brad Little-associated Idaho Victory Fund, but not a merged political account or demonstrated IACI direction of Victory Fund giving. IACI’s current board includes representatives of Idaho Power, Micron Technology and St. Luke’s, among many other major Idaho employers. Current 2026 Idaho Victory Fund contribution data list St. Luke’s Health Plan at $50,000, Micron Technology at $25,000 an…
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Recorded status: Verified negative current-activity check as of 2026-09-15. Fairness Project policy alignment on ballot-measure rights is documented, but HJR4 funding/organizing role remains unsubstantiated.
A targeted current-activity search found no public evidence that The Fairness Project is financing, organizing, or otherwise participating in Idaho opposition to HJR 4. The Fairness Project official current-campaigns page lists its 2026 campaigns in Michigan, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Virginia and other states; its Idaho entry remains the 2018 Medicaid expansion campaign. Site-specific searches for HJR 4/HJR4 and Idaho 2026 did not surface an Idaho …
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Recorded status: IRS-DERIVED VERIFIED organizational grant route and reciprocal Hopewell↔Global Impact relationship. No same-dollar recycling, earmarking to WFF, or Idaho attribution established.
IRS-derived grant records add a higher upstream organizational route into the Global Impact Social Welfare Foundation/Western Futures branch. Hopewell Fund gave Global Impact (EIN 52-1273585, the separate 501(c)(3) intermediary organization) about $19.5 million across reported 2020–2024 grants. Global Impact's FY2023 filing reports a $13.35 million grant to the distinct Global Impact Social Welfare Foundation (GISWF, EIN 92-0652730). GISWF separately gave …
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Recorded status: Verified shared administrative/address nexus with an important limiting explanation: 1401 Poplar was Silver's own longstanding political address. No legal-control or fund-transfer inference.
Reclaim Idaho Fund's ActBlue Civics merchandise page uses Reclaim branding and a reclaimidaho.org contact address. Project Reclaim Idaho Inc., the separate 501(c)(3), is registered c/o Deborah Silver at 1401 Poplar Ave, Twin Falls. Older Idaho candidate and campaign-finance records show 1401 Poplar was also Deborah Silver's own longstanding candidate/campaign address. Reclaim Idaho's historical committee listing names Silver as treasurer at that address. T…
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Recorded status: PRIMARY organizational rosters verify processor overlap. No direct IDA membership in IACI, common governance or control established from the sources reviewed.
Current organizational rosters show a structural overlap between IACI's corporate-policy network and Idaho's dairy economy. IACI's current board includes representatives from Chobani Idaho, Glanbia Nutritionals, Lactalis American Group and J.R. Simplot, among many other large employers. Idaho Dairymen's Association's current dairy-processor roster separately lists Chobani, Glanbia, Lactalis, Idaho Milk Products and other major processors operating in Idaho…
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Recorded status: Same-year 2022 Idaho leadership and political/legislative activity verified; Sixteen Thirty grant purpose and Idaho earmarking remain broader than any one Idaho action.
The Sixteen Thirty→Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates branch now has a contemporaneous Idaho steering point rather than relying on later activity. Sixteen Thirty Fund’s 2022 Schedule I reported a $550,000 grant to Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates for civil rights, social action and advocacy. In 2022, Mistie DelliCarpini-Tolman was publicly identified as PPAA’s Idaho State Director. Contemporaneous Idaho reporting shows her speaking for PPAA against…
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Recorded status: Verified current program partnership and personnel/PAC leadership bridge; no Idaho Solutions→Defend and Protect funding or coordination established.
A Sept. 15–16, 2026 public immigration-history program in the Wood River Valley is presented in partnership with Idaho Solutions, Idaho Leaders United, MWEG, St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Wood River Jewish Community, LDS members in the Wood River Valley, and The Senior Connection. Idaho Leaders United’s own leadership page lists retired Ada County Sheriff Gary Raney among its leadership. Independent contemporaneous reporting identifies Raney as founder/chai…
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Recorded status: Current officer roles, compensation and outside institutional roles verified. Funding/control by Sixteen Thirty or Western Futures beyond documented grants is not established.
Votes Idaho’s FY2024 Form 990 identifies Colin Nash as executive director, Matt Compton as board chair and Mistie DelliCarpini-Tolman as board member; Nash received $76,212 in reportable compensation from Votes Idaho in FY2024, while Compton and DelliCarpini-Tolman were unpaid directors. The same filing shows $458,433 in total expenses, including $76,212 executive compensation and $70,234 in other salaries/wages. Filing-derived program descriptions separat…
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Recorded status: Verified historical issue continuity and 2025 Idaho Solutions event; no organizational continuity with Idahoans for Open Primaries or Unite America established.
Idaho Solutions’ Sept. 22, 2025 Twin Falls lecture featured Keith Allred, founder of CommonSense American; the College of Southern Idaho event page lists Idaho Solutions and MWEG Idaho as sponsors. Allred’s involvement in Idaho primary-system reform predates the modern Proposition 1 coalition by more than fifteen years. Contemporary 2007–2008 reporting identifies Allred, then leading The Common Interest, as proposing a modified-closed primary that would ke…
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Recorded status: IRS-DERIVED/PRIMARY FEC VERIFIED upstream architecture. Direct dual-recipient relationships for Guardian and Global Impact documented; same-dollar pass-through, earmarking and control not established.
IRS-derived grant records now provide a consolidated upstream map for Western Futures Fund across reported 2021–2024 tax years: Sixteen Thirty Fund approximately $5.1M across 3 grants; Global Impact Social Welfare Foundation $3.0M across 2 grants; New Venture Fund $2.2M across 3 grants; Guardian of Rights Fund $1.4M across 2 grants; Civic Truth Coalition $450K; Tioga Fund $100K; and Sheriff Accountability Action $30K. Total reported grant support is about …
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Recorded status: PRIMARY 2024 financial/admin facts plus IRS-derived multi-year grant totals verified. Reciprocal flows/integration established; wrongdoing, laundering, same-dollar cycling and Idaho earmarking NOT established.
Sixteen Thirty Fund can now be mapped as a high-volume national 501(c)(4) grantmaking and operational-support hub with several layers that require separate analysis. Its FY2024 Form 990 reports $282.24M total revenue, including $275.16M in contributions, $310.78M expenses, $236.50M in grants and similar amounts paid, and $88.41M year-end net assets. IRS-derived 2019-2025 grant records identify at least $497M in itemized institutional grants to Sixteen Thir…
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Recorded status: Verified direct organization-to-organization grant relationships from IRS-derived grant records. No coordination or pass-through inference.
New Venture Fund (EIN 20-5806345) made multiple direct grants to Idaho advocacy organizations in 2023–2024, beyond its $1.78 million FY2024 grant to Western Futures Fund. IRS-derived records identify $177,000 to Neighbors for Boise / the legal entity now operating as Gem State Housing Alliance in 2023; $50,000 to Indigenous Idaho Alliance in 2024; $25,000 to Conservation Voters for Idaho Education in 2024; approximately $37,500–$38,000 to Idahoans United f…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Upgraded: primary Form 990 governance and grant-purpose evidence verified. Cross-issue common-funder relationship established; Idaho Prop 1/Reclaim earmarking not established.
Action Now Inc. (EIN 45-4083809) is directly tied to John and Laura Arnold in primary tax records. Its FY2024 Form 990 lists John Arnold and Laura Arnold as directors; Schedule O states that John and Laura Arnold have a family relationship and business relationships with Action Now officers, and that Action Now follows relevant policies of Arnold Ventures LLC. The Laura and John Arnold Foundation FY2024 filing separately reports a historic and continuing r…
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Recorded status: Verified Idaho Solutions/IEA sponsorship statement and separate IEA/Reclaim alliance statement; no common funding or control inferred.
Chenele Dixon’s public Idaho Solutions promotion for the Feb. 26, 2026 “Becoming Idaho” lecture thanks the Idaho Education Association for sponsoring the community conversation. The College of Southern Idaho official event page independently identifies Idaho Solutions as host and lists Idaho Solutions and Unity Alliance of Southern Idaho as sponsors; the IEA sponsorship is therefore separately documented through Dixon/Idaho Solutions promotion rather than …
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Recorded status: IRS Form 8872/527-derived organization, leadership, contributors and Way Back expenditure relationship verified through ProPublica 527 Explorer. Legal identity with any similarly named private foundation/family office is NOT established.
Toolbox (EIN 88-3259830), based in Arlington, Virginia, is a Section 527 political organization rather than a 501(c)(4), making its contributors and expenditures materially more transparent. ProPublica’s IRS Form 8872-derived 527 Explorer states Toolbox’s purpose as “To support grassroots organizations and projects to advance democracy,” lists Jay R. Halfon as president and Pamela Gilbert as treasurer and secretary (leadership last updated 2022), and repor…
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Recorded status: Verified from contemporary reporting, IRS-derived nonprofit records, and RWJF filing. Additional years/grantmakers remain to be traced.
Documented outside funding exists at multiple layers. For the 2018 Medicaid expansion drive, Boise State Public Radio reported that the Washington, D.C.-based Fairness Project spent more than $500,000 in Idaho, including paid signature gathering; Reclaim staff acknowledged this support was critical during a key qualification period. Separately, Reclaim Idaho Fund (EIN 86-3680412) is shown in current nonprofit data as having received a $250,000 grant from t…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: FEC-derived Way Back→Hometown Heroes/Idaho First payments and Idaho PAC-to-PAC transfers are verified/reported from campaign-finance records. Coordination and same-dollar retransfers are NOT established.
Way Back PAC’s 2026 FEC-derived disbursement report for Apr. 1-June 3 shows $100,000 each to Idaho committees Hometown Heroes PAC and Idaho First, in addition to $350,000 to Defend and Protect Idaho. Idaho Capital Sun’s review of Idaho campaign-finance filings reports that Hometown Heroes also contributed more than $65,000 to Defend and Protect Idaho and $45,000 to Idaho First; Idaho First separately received $6,000 from Take Back Idaho PAC, and Right 2 Le…
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Recorded status: PRIMARY VERIFIED campaign-finance relationships; no cross-cycle control or continuing vendor relationship inferred.
Idaho Secretary of State reports for Idahoans for Healthcare show The Fairness Project at $430,722.21 year-to-date cash contributions by the 2018 Pre-General report, including $400,000 on Oct. 15, plus at least $30,522.21 in Fairness Project in-kind support reported through Sept. 30. The Pre-General Schedule C also records a $30 in-kind event expense from Reclaim co-founder and Idahoans for Healthcare co-chair Emily Strizich. After the election, the Second…
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Recorded status: Verified Idaho Solutions-organized multi-stop event series linking Medicaid policy to the May 19 primary. Policy/electoral convergence with Reclaim is established; Reclaim participation in this series is not.
Idaho Solutions independently operated a multi-stop April 2026 event series titled "OUR HEALTHCARE, OUR VOTES: Medicaid and the May 19th Primary Election." Eventbrite records identify Idaho Solutions as organizer for events in Twin Falls (Apr. 14), Fairfield (Apr. 17), Gooding (Apr. 21), and Kimberly (Apr. 22). The event description explicitly ties the May 19 primary election to candidates’ positions on Medicaid Expansion and disability services, stating t…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified organizational support/partnership relationships; no evidence IEA transferred Reclaim funds to Idaho Solutions or coordinated the two organizations.
Idaho Education Association records create a distinct institutional bridge between Reclaim Idaho and Idaho Solutions. IEA Retired Council minutes report that the Southwest Educators Association-Retired chapter used a 2023-24 IEA grant for $1,000 in “Support for Reclaim Idaho,” and the council accepted the chapter’s report as fulfilling the grant objective. Separately, IEA’s March 2025 “May Matters” materials explicitly named Reclaim Idaho among allies join…
Read note and sources →Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: PRIMARY/CONTEMPORANEOUS VERIFIED on Little's former IACI chair role, Hauge personnel path, and IACI control of its own PAC apparatus; 2026 IPF total is secondary aggregation. No IACI→WFF/1630/Way Back funding/control link established.
Current primary and contemporaneous records establish a strong institutional relationship between Gov. Brad Little and the Idaho Association of Commerce & Industry (IACI), but not legal or proven operational control by IACI over the Governor. Idaho's official Blue Book/ITD records identify Little as a past chairman of IACI. In 2017 Little selected then-IACI vice president Zach Hauge to manage his gubernatorial campaign; the Governor's current staff page id…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-12
Recorded status: Open primary-record gap; 2021 grant and filing rule documented, recipient return not yet located
DOCUMENTED: Sixteen Thirty Fund's 2021 Form 990 Schedule I reports a $495,000 cash grant to Idaho Values First Foundation Inc., EIN 87-2846989, PO Box 2511, Boise, Idaho 83701, and labels the recipient 501(c)(4). DOCUMENTED RULE: IRS Form 990 instructions state that organizations described in 501(c) generally must file Form 990 when gross receipts are at least $200,000; gross receipts are amounts received from all sources. IRS Form 8976 guidance also says …
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