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Research finding · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Current lobbyist status corroborated; Idaho Values First client detail requires primary lobbyist profile/report before upgrading.
A current Idaho lobbyist directory independently lists Rolando Ruano as a registered Idaho lobbyist. Secondary 2026 reporting identifies him as the registered lobbyist for Idaho Values First, but the currently accessible public lobbyist interface did not expose a primary client/subject detail page in this research pass. Therefore the correct evidentiary treatment is: Ruano's current lobbyist status is corroborated; Idaho Values First as the represented cli…
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Recorded status: Verified separate organizational identities. Preserve as an explicit identity firewall.
Public records establish that “Common Ground USA” (CG-USA) is the U.S. program of Search for Common Ground, a Washington, D.C.-based 501(c)(3) with EIN 52-1257425. Search for Common Ground launched CG-USA in 2021 and identifies Nealin Parker as its executive director. This is not the same organization as Chenele Dixon and Charlie Conrad’s Common Ground—United We Stand, the Kimberly, Idaho 501(c)(3) with EIN 33-2300740 and PO Box 859. A Journal of Democracy…
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Recorded status: PRIMARY local governance and current external-funding/use pattern verified from official site/FEC-linked reporting. Candidate support/opposition totals are contemporaneous reporting from Idaho filings; donor direction beyond documented outreach is NOT established.
Defend and Protect Idaho provides a concrete example of outside money being absorbed by an Idaho-controlled PAC and then deployed into Idaho legislative races. The PAC’s official site identifies Judith Ellis as treasurer. Contemporary Idaho reporting identifies retired Ada County Sheriff Gary Raney as chair. Idaho Capital Sun reported that Way Back PAC contributed $350,000 in 2026 and quoted Raney saying Way Back reached out to his group and was interested…
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Recorded status: PRIMARY organizational model and named-project grants verified. Fiscal sponsorship architecture established; illegality, concealment intent and Idaho project destination NOT inferred.
Sixteen Thirty Fund’s own current materials establish that it is not merely a conventional grantmaker: it operates a fiscal-sponsorship platform. Its approach page says interested projects can be incubated under Sixteen Thirty, Sixteen Thirty becomes the project’s fiscal sponsor, the project sources funding, and when a foundation or other funder donates to support that project the fiscal sponsor receives the donation on the project’s behalf. Sixteen Thirty…
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Recorded status: Current Sunshine-derived campaign-finance totals strongly indicate in-state funding predominance; separate 2024 WFF nonprofit grant remains documented. Do not characterize the 2026 campaign as outside-money dominated.
Current Sunshine-derived campaign-finance tracking materially constrains how the Western Futures→Idahoans United branch should be described. A current tracker built from Idaho Secretary of State Sunshine records reports Idahoans United for Women and Families raising about $1.634 million in 2026, with approximately $1.407 million categorized as in-state and approximately $226,000 as out-of-state, excluding about $1,151 without usable donor geography. Major …
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Recorded status: Negative/limited-public-record check; no identifiable institutional grantmaker located in current searches.
Project Reclaim Idaho Inc. reported $11,600 in contributions and $11,600 in year-end net assets for FY2024, with zero expenses. Current searches by legal name and EIN did not surface a grantmaker Schedule I record identifying the source of those contributions. Because small donors and many individual contributions are not publicly disclosed, this is not evidence that no institutional or individual donor exists; it means the public sources located so far do…
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Recorded status: PRIMARY/IRS-DERIVED VERIFIED: 3 independent governing members; Hennesy president, Krones treasurer, Hirsch secretary; Blue Moon day-to-day management separately primary verified. Grant-selection and Idaho-target decision rights remain unresolved.
Western Futures Fund’s governance/operations split can now be described more precisely. Its FY2024 Form 990 reports three voting members of the governing body and three independent voting members, with no reported family/business relationships among officers/directors. Part VII identifies Michael Hennesy as president, Jeremy Krones as treasurer and Christopher Hirsch as secretary, each with $0 reportable compensation from WFF. Separately, WFF’s Schedule O …
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Recorded status: Verified current-governance negative check. Separate EINs and officer slates established; repeated collaboration remains separately verified. Informal coordination/contractual relationships are not ruled out.
Current public governance records do not show common officers/directors among Reclaim Idaho Fund, Idaho Solutions Inc./Idaho Solutions Foundation, and Common Ground — United We Stand. Reclaim Idaho Fund’s FY2024 Form 990 lists Luke Mayville, Yvonne Sandmire and Ann Marie Johnson as directors. Idaho Solutions Foundation’s FY2025 filing lists Linda Hartgen, Chenele Dixon, Cindy Wilson and Stephanie Snarr; Idaho Solutions Inc.’s FY2025 filing identifies Chene…
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Recorded status: Verified targeted negative search. Institutional Open Society-related upstream funding exists elsewhere in the network, but no direct personal Soros payment/earmark to Reclaim or Idaho Solutions was found.
A targeted search for a direct personal George Soros financial relationship with Reclaim Idaho, Reclaim Idaho Fund, Idaho Solutions Inc., or Idaho Solutions Foundation did not locate a contribution, grant, payment, or earmarked transfer from George Soros personally to any of those entities. The strongest historical Soros-related Idaho claim found traces to 2018-2019 criticism of the Medicaid campaign: contemporaneous Coeur d’Alene Press reporting described…
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Recorded status: Current committee totals verified; official issue-first self-description verified. No candidate-specific 2026 expenditure/endorsement found in current search; itemized Sunshine ledger still inaccessible through available web interface.
The current 2026-cycle public record confirms substantial Reclaim Idaho political-committee activity but still does not establish candidate-specific spending or endorsements. Transparency USA currently reports Reclaim Idaho at $396,106.85 in 2026-cycle contributions and $88,739.50 in expenditures, with no loans. Reclaim’s own current website says its campaigns focus "not on political candidates or political parties" but on issues, while its theory of chang…
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Recorded status: PRIMARY VERIFIED from Sixteen Thirty Fund FY2024 Schedule I. Direct 2024 Boise grants: Votes Idaho $163K; Idaho Voices for Children $110,740. WNN→Gem State remains indirect and separately constrained.
Sixteen Thirty Fund’s own FY2024 Schedule I directly lists two Idaho-address grantees located in Boise: Votes Idaho, EIN 46-5415188, received $163,000 for “civil rights, social action, advocacy”; Idaho Voices for Children Foundation Inc., EIN 82-0478703, received $110,740 for the same broad purpose category. Together those two direct Idaho-address grants total $273,740 in the 2024 filing. The same Schedule I separately lists a $600,000 grant to Washington,…
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Recorded status: IRS-derived grant-purpose categories documented; purpose labels describe grants but do not prove allocation to a particular WFF downstream expenditure.
The upstream grants into Western Futures Fund are not uniformly described as election funding, and their stated purposes should be preserved separately. Filing-derived grant data report Sixteen Thirty Fund grants to WFF including approximately $2.225M in 2022 and $2.75M in 2024 under “civil rights, social action, advocacy”; New Venture Fund grants including approximately $120K in 2021, $300K in 2023 and $1.78M in 2024 under the same broad advocacy category…
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Recorded status: Verified CVI activity and legislative outcomes; LCV causal attribution preserved as attribution. Funding-source-to-2025-activity tracing is NOT established.
The effect side of the Sixteen Thirty→Conservation Voters for Idaho branch is now independently documented beyond general mission statements. League of Conservation Voters, CVI's national network affiliate, reported in March 2025 that CVI strategically worked to defeat three Idaho measures restricting the citizen initiative process: HB 85, SJR 101 and HB 2. LCV says CVI outreach generated more than 600 emails to state representatives and the governor, incr…
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Recorded status: PRIMARY FCC VERIFIED local governing/contact, media vendor and two distinct KMVT ad orders. Hometown Heroes funding link remains secondary pending primary Idaho row.
Primary KMVT/FCC political-file records identify the Idaho-side steering and media-buying structure for Magic Valley Voter Action. A 2026 issue-ad disclosure lists Magic Valley Voter Action at PO Box 5542, Twin Falls, Idaho 83303; names James Dale Gould as contact; and lists James Dale Gould as the sole named member of the chief executive officers/executive committee/board/other governing group field. The station-time request was placed by Targeted Platfor…
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Recorded status: PRIMARY leadership/role verified; campaign spending totals/payees are current secondary aggregation of Idaho filings. WFF/NVF grants are NOT traced to specific vendors.
Idahoans United for Women and Families has an unusually clear public record identifying its Idaho operational decision-maker. In a sworn January 2025 Idaho Supreme Court declaration, executive director Melanie Folwell states that in her role she organizes volunteers, coordinates strategic priorities, manages staff, fundraises, communicates with media, drafts initiative proposals, coalition-builds and travels statewide to recruit volunteers and leaders. The…
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Recorded status: Verified negative search across current indexed Hopewell/public grant records, with a primary-source RWJF contrast. No direct Hopewell grant found; absolute absence cannot be proved.
A targeted exact-name/EIN search of currently indexed Hopewell Fund grant records and broader public grant records did not identify a direct Hopewell Fund grant to Reclaim Idaho or Reclaim Idaho Fund (EIN 86-3680412). Searches for "Reclaim Idaho Fund" and EIN 86-3680412 with Hopewell returned no direct grant record. By contrast, a direct Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant is primary-verifiable in RWJF’s 2024 Form 990-PF: Reclaim Idaho Fund, 2605 W Kooten…
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Recorded status: Verified recipient totals and two identifiable grant relationships; remaining donor identity unresolved.
Reclaim Idaho Fund reported $93,333 in contributions in FY2022, $145,904 in FY2023, and $312,428 in FY2024. A $65,000 2022 grant from All Hands on Deck Network/Movement Voter Project is independently identifiable, leaving about $28,333 of FY2022 contribution revenue not attributed by the public grant records located so far. FY2023 contribution revenue of $145,904 remains unattributed in the current public funder search. FY2024 includes a separately identif…
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Recorded status: IRS leadership/compensation and IEA role PRIMARY/IRS VERIFIED; outside-funder control or direction is NOT established.
Votes Idaho’s FY2024 Form 990-derived records identify Colin Nash as executive director with $76,212 reportable compensation, Matt Compton as board chair with $0 reportable compensation, and Mistie DelliCarpini-Tolman and Caitlin Barnard as board members with $0 reportable compensation. Nash’s reported Votes Idaho compensation was $115,000 in FY2023 and $51,923 in FY2022. Separately, the Idaho Education Association identifies Matt Compton as its associate …
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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 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: 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: 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…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-15
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…
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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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