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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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. …
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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…
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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: 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: 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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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