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Connection research · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: PRIMARY FCC governance/media-buyer evidence plus Way Back/Hometown Heroes funding and candidate-specific spending verified. Do NOT merge with terminated 2018 Idaho First PAC absent legal continuity proof.
The current 2026 Idaho First committee now has a primary-source local steering and vendor identification. A May 2026 FCC non-candidate issue-ad agreement for KBOI-TV identifies Idaho First at PO Box 334, Boise, ID 83701, lists Richard Johnson as the organization contact, and lists Richard Johnson as the only chief executive/officer/executive-committee/board or other governing-group member disclosed on the form. The form is signed by Johnson. The same FCC r…
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Recorded status: Verified alliance statement and strategic alignment from IEA and Mayville public statements. No verified direct Reclaim candidate spending, endorsement, or coordinated expenditure identified in this research pass.
On March 28, 2025, the Idaho Education Association described its 'May Matters' program as a 14-month effort to change the composition of the 2026 Idaho Legislature. The IEA article said the effort would focus heavily on the Republican primary because many Idaho legislative contests are effectively decided there, and quoted IEA political director Chris Parri saying educators/allies in strategic districts might need to register Republican to participate. The…
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Recorded status: Verified institutional funding and nonprofit governance overlap; direct PAC giving independently verified at least in part. Idaho earmarking/control not established.
A cleaner upstream Unite America node is documented through Quadrivium and Kathryn Murdoch. IRS-derived grant data show Quadrivium (EIN 46-1535719), co-led by James R. Murdoch and Kathryn Murdoch, gave Unite America Institute approximately $7.0 million across six grants from 2020-2024, making Quadrivium the Institute’s second-largest identified institutional funder in the available 2019-2025 dataset, behind Fidelity Charitable. Unite America Institute’s ow…
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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-…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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