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Research finding · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified WEF network/support relationship and Boise voter-information project announcement. Specific WEF funding, partisan activity or electoral/legislative causation is NOT established.
A narrow but direct World Economic Forum institutional route into Idaho civic/election-related activity is documented through the Global Shapers Community. WEF's own 2016 Global Shapers annual report lists a Boise Hub. A November 30, 2015 Idaho Statesman item introducing Global Shapers Boise says it was a branch of the World Economic Forum Global Shapers Community and identified an upcoming project to inform Boise young adults and first-time voters about t…
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Recorded status: PRIMARY FCC VERIFIED local governing/contact and media-buy vendor. Funding-source direction, shared-vendor coordination and upstream earmarking are NOT established.
Primary 2026 FCC political-file records identify the Idaho-side steering and media-buying structure for Idaho First. An FCC issue-ad disclosure for Idaho First lists PO Box 334, Boise, Idaho 83701; identifies Richard Johnson as the organization contact; gives richard@idaho-first.com; and lists Richard Johnson as the sole named member of the chief executive officers/executive committee/board/other governing group field. The same record identifies Targeted P…
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Recorded status: Unresolved identity; secondary normalization is insufficient. Keep separate until unique primary identifier is found.
Primary FCC material for Idaho Values First identifies 'Judy Ellis' among its governing persons. Defend and Protect Idaho's official records/site identify 'Judith Ellis' as treasurer. Secondary 2026 reporting normalizes the Idaho Values First name to 'Judith Ellis,' which increases the plausibility of an identity match, but no primary record reviewed supplies a matching full legal name, address or other unique identifier connecting the two. Keep them as se…
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Recorded status: Verified from IRS-derived FY2024 filing data. Asset accumulation established; use/transfer/restriction of those assets remains unresolved.
IRS-derived FY2024 Form 990 data for Reclaim Idaho Fund Inc. (EIN 86-3680412) reports $312,808 total revenue, including $312,428 in contributions, against $40,550 of expenses, producing $272,258 in net income and $351,972 in year-end net assets with no reported liabilities. FY2023 net assets were $79,714, so the 2024 increase in net assets matches the reported $272,258 net income. This shows the 501(c)(4) entered 2025 with substantial accumulated assets re…
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Recorded status: Revenue and grant amounts verified from filing-derived records; concentration established, but legal control and downstream earmarking are not established.
Western Futures Fund’s dependence on a small number of large institutional grants is quantitatively significant. WFF’s FY2022 filing reports total revenue of $3,427,856. Sixteen Thirty Fund’s reported 2022 grant to WFF was $2,225,000, equal to approximately 64.9% of WFF’s total reported revenue for that year. In FY2024, WFF reported $8,735,000 total revenue; grants received included $2,750,000 from Sixteen Thirty Fund and $1,780,000 from New Venture Fund. …
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Recorded status: PRIMARY IRS VERIFIED. Formal board and outsourced day-to-day management are both documented; individual decision authority remains unresolved.
Western Futures Fund's FY2024 public filing reports three independent voting board members: Michael Hennesy (president), Jeremy Krones (treasurer), and Christopher Hirsch (secretary), each with $0 reportable compensation. The filing reports no salary/wage expense. Separately, Schedule O states Blue Moon Strategies is responsible for day-to-day operations as management consultant. Schedule C reports $2.67M paid from WFF funds to four PACs in 2024: Your Comm…
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Recorded status: Verified from IRS-derived FY2025 filing data. Financial scale, contribution dependence and Dixon compensation established; donor identities remain unresolved.
IRS-derived FY2025 Form 990 data for Idaho Solutions Inc. (EIN 33-2605998), Kimberly, Idaho, reports approximately $83,000 total revenue, all reported as contributions and grants, approximately $45,000 total expenses, approximately $39,000 year-end net assets, and $0 liabilities. Chenele Dixon is reported as Secretary/Treasurer with $12,000 compensation. The filing reports a 55% program-service expense ratio. Idaho Solutions is recognized as an active 501(…
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Recorded status: Verified from sworn declaration and contemporaneous reporting. No adverse inference from education, employment, scholarships, or academic interests.
Luke Mayville co-founded Reclaim Idaho in Sandpoint in 2017. In a sworn declaration filed in Idaho litigation, Mayville said his Reclaim role included setting strategic priorities, fundraising, media communications, opinion writing, drafting initiative proposals, and statewide volunteer/leader recruitment. He said he attended North Idaho College, graduated summa cum laude from the University of Oregon in 2008, received McNair and Gilman scholarships, studi…
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Recorded status: Primary tax-filing extraction; upstream donor attribution to these payments is not established.
Western Futures Fund FY2024 Form 990 Schedule C reports payments from the organization’s funds of $1,500,000 to Your Community PAC, $970,000 to Retire Career Politicians Inc., $100,000 to Way Back PAC, and $100,000 to Wyoming Way PAC. The filing separately describes an Electoral program involving leadership development related to potential candidates for public office and grants to political organizations, with approximately $2.9 million in program expense…
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Recorded status: PRIMARY VERIFIED governance plus Idaho grants. Former-administration personnel link established; Obama administration/federal funding or direction is NOT established.
A direct former-Obama-administration governance link exists at Sixteen Thirty Fund during years in which the fund made direct Idaho grants. The Obama White House archive identifies Raul Alvillar as an Associate Director for Public Engagement. Harvard's Institute of Politics biography states that Alvillar worked on Barack Obama's 2007 presidential campaign, served in several Obama administration roles including Associate Director of the White House Office o…
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Recorded status: Verified current negative check; direct Ruano→CCI/Familias Unidas relationship remains unproven. Historical/vendor/referral relationship not excluded.
A fresh check of Community Council of Idaho's current official Board of Trustees page and Familias Unidas Legal Services staff page does not list Rolando Ruano. This is consistent with the earlier Idaho dairy/CCI pass-forward, which explicitly classified any direct Ruano employment, board, contract, or formal referral relationship with Community Council of Idaho / Familias Unidas as UNPROVEN. Ruano remains independently documented as an Idaho immigration/c…
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Recorded status: PRIMARY VERIFIED grant-monitoring procedure. Specific conditions attached to Votes Idaho, CVI or Idahoans United grants remain undisclosed/unresolved.
Western Futures Fund’s primary IRS Schedule I describes an ongoing grant-oversight system rather than a write-check-and-disengage model. In response to Schedule I Part I line 2, WFF states that, to ensure compliance with all grant conditions, it uses a combination of written and verbal reports plus ongoing monitoring and interaction with grantees, with regular updates depending on the amount and term of the grant. WFF has direct documented Idaho grants inc…
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Recorded status: IRS leadership/financials and direct policy advocacy VERIFIED; Sixteen Thirty grant-to-salary or bill-specific expenditure is NOT established.
Idaho Voices for Children is another direct Sixteen Thirty Idaho recipient with identifiable local leadership and documented state-policy use. Sixteen Thirty’s 2024 filing reports a $110,740 direct grant to Idaho Voices for Children Foundation Inc. The recipient’s IRS filings identify Christine Tiddens as executive director; its most recent roster reports $45,231 in compensation for Tiddens, while FY2025 organization-wide financials report about $2.08 mill…
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Recorded status: PRIMARY VERIFIED grant, financials, public Schedule-B redaction and Arabella administration. Original donor provenance is publicly unavailable; illegality, laundering, Idaho earmarking and donor direction NOT established.
Impetus Fund provides a concrete example of legally nonpublic original-source money entering Sixteen Thirty Fund from an accumulated 501(c)(4) asset pool. Impetus Fund’s public Form 990 for the tax year July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025 reports only $508,582 in current-year contributions, $748,916 total revenue, and $15,185,025 in beginning-of-year net assets. It then reports $9,891,600 in grants paid, including a $7,700,000 cash grant to Sixteen Thirty F…
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Recorded status: Verified current self-description from MVP's own 2026 materials. Historical grant-purpose inference explicitly unresolved.
Movement Voter Project's official September 9, 2026 grantmaking strategy describes MVP as a 'mutual fund for political giving' that raises donor money and channels it to organizations doing year-round organizing, electoral work and advocacy. The current strategy identifies three pillars: expanding local organizing, scaling new media, and 'Embolden Democrats.' A September 10, 2026 release from affiliated Movement Voter PAC announced a $50 million commitment…
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Recorded status: DAF structure/anonymity PRIMARY VERIFIED; institutional grant totals IRS-derived. Original donor behind some grants may be nonpublic; DAF→NVF→Sixteen Thirty same-dollar pass-through is NOT established.
The upstream provenance audit of Sixteen Thirty Fund reaches a major public-record visibility limit at donor-advised-fund sponsors feeding New Venture Fund, Sixteen Thirty’s largest identifiable institutional funder. IRS-derived grant records identify approximately $644.5M from Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund and approximately $325.7M from National Philanthropic Trust to New Venture Fund in the currently indexed multi-year data, making those two …
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Recorded status: Verified legal/tax-exempt entity status, mailing address, Dixon association, founders and stated voter-advocacy objectives. Funding sources and financial relationships with Reclaim/Idaho Solutions remain unresolved.
Common Ground — United We Stand is now independently identifiable as a tax-exempt legal nonprofit, not merely an informal coalition brand. IRS-derived/public charity records list COMMON GROUND--UNITED WE STAND, EIN 33-2300740, as a 501(c)(3) organization at PO Box 859, Kimberly, Idaho 83341, with IRS exemption/ruling dating to June 2025. A tax-exempt directory lists it c/o Chenele Dixon. Common Ground official materials use the same PO Box 859 and state th…
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Recorded status: Current board/executive structure and concrete Idaho election tactics verified. Specific upstream grant dollars cannot be assigned to individual tactics without earmark records.
Conservation Voters for Idaho provides a highly documented Idaho use endpoint for the national funding routes already mapped through League of Conservation Voters, Sixteen Thirty Fund and Western Futures Fund. CVI’s current board page lists Collin Todd as chair, Mike Lanza as vice chair, Mark Nail as treasurer, Michelle Cooper as secretary and board members including Chuck Coiner, Mat Erpelding, Chantel Greene, Renee Hill, Mike McIntyre and Caitlin Cornfor…
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Recorded status: Verified institutional funding chain with primary Sixteen Thirty Idaho grant records. Personal Soros→specific Idaho expenditure, earmarking and operational control are NOT established.
The George Soros/Open Society branch can now be stated as a documented institutional funding chain into organizations that directly funded Idaho advocacy groups, with a strict same-dollar firewall. Open Society Foundations identifies George Soros as its founder and states he has given more than $32 billion of his personal fortune to the Open Society Foundations. Open Society identifies Open Society Policy Center (OSPC) as its 501(c)(4) advocacy affiliate; …
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Recorded status: PRIMARY VERIFIED from annual Schedule C filings. Political-campaign amounts are distinct from ordinary grants/project operations; Idaho attribution and upstream donor earmarking NOT established.
Sixteen Thirty Fund’s own Schedule C filings establish that it is not only an issue-advocacy grantmaker/fiscal sponsor; it also reported very large amounts of direct and indirect political-campaign activity under federal tax reporting rules. Primary filings report political-campaign activity expenditures of $167,053,525 in 2020, $13,860,361 in 2021, $66,401,198 in 2022, $13,080,029 in 2023, and $78,008,755 in 2024. Those five annual figures sum to $338,403…
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Recorded status: Verified negative search across current indexed grantmaker records; absence of a reported grant is not proof of no funding relationship. Idaho Solutions FY2025 donor identities remain unresolved.
A targeted recipient-name/EIN and grantmaker-Schedule-I search did not identify Idaho Solutions Inc. (EIN 33-2605998) or Idaho Solutions Foundation Inc. (EIN 39-5049634) among reported grant recipients of Hopewell Fund, Unite America Institute, New Venture Fund, or Sixteen Thirty Fund in the currently indexed grant years searched. Funderscope states its grantmaker pages are built from the filers own Form 990 Schedule I data and that Schedule I recipient re…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Strong circumstantial identity match; NOT yet conclusive. Do not merge the two AnnMarie/Ann Marie Johnson nodes without a unique identifier or explicit cross-identification.
Reclaim Idaho Fund's FY2024 IRS-derived filing lists an 'Ann Marie Johnson' as a director alongside Luke Mayville and Yvonne Sandmire. Separate contemporaneous Proposition 1 records identify AnnMarie Johnson of Boise as Zeke Johnson's wife/partner in the initiative effort: reporting says Zeke and AnnMarie Johnson contributed $100,250 to Idahoans for Open Primaries, and Bruce Newcomb wrote that the Proposition 1 concept began in a dinner conversation involv…
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Recorded status: Verified from Hopewell primary Schedule I for Unite America and IRS-derived Article IV funding data. Institutional funding established; Idaho earmarking remains unsupported.
Hopewell Fund’s primary Schedule I records strengthen the no-pass-through firewall in Glenneda’s article. Hopewell’s 2022 Form 990 Schedule I lists an $850,000 cash grant to Unite America Institute with the broad purpose "Civil rights, social action, advocacy." Its 2023 Schedule I lists another $500,000 to Unite America Institute with the same broad purpose. Hopewell’s 2022 grant to Article IV is reported at approximately $433,108; public IRS-derived recor…
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Recorded status: Verified Project Reclaim FY2024 c3 status/financials/officers and current Reclaim tax-deductible voter-education solicitation. Exact formal affiliation remains unresolved.
IRS-derived FY2024 Form 990-EZ data for Project Reclaim Idaho Inc. (EIN 93-4744691) reports $11,600 in contributions, $0 expenses, $11,600 in year-end net assets, and officers Tracy Olson (president), Regina Clemente (secretary), and Deborah Silver (treasurer). The organization is recognized as a 501(c)(3) educational alliance/advocacy organization and contributions are tax deductible. Reclaim Idaho's current donation FAQ separately states that Reclaim Ida…
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