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Connection research · 2026-09-15
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: 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: 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…
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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: 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: 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…
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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…
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