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Research finding · 2026-09-15
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…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-15
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 …
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-15
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…
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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…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-15
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…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified Idaho Solutions-organized multi-stop event series linking Medicaid policy to the May 19 primary. Policy/electoral convergence with Reclaim is established; Reclaim participation in this series is not.
Idaho Solutions independently operated a multi-stop April 2026 event series titled "OUR HEALTHCARE, OUR VOTES: Medicaid and the May 19th Primary Election." Eventbrite records identify Idaho Solutions as organizer for events in Twin Falls (Apr. 14), Fairfield (Apr. 17), Gooding (Apr. 21), and Kimberly (Apr. 22). The event description explicitly ties the May 19 primary election to candidates’ positions on Medicaid Expansion and disability services, stating t…
Read note and sources →Research finding · 2026-09-12
Recorded status: Open primary-record gap; 2021 grant and filing rule documented, recipient return not yet located
DOCUMENTED: Sixteen Thirty Fund's 2021 Form 990 Schedule I reports a $495,000 cash grant to Idaho Values First Foundation Inc., EIN 87-2846989, PO Box 2511, Boise, Idaho 83701, and labels the recipient 501(c)(4). DOCUMENTED RULE: IRS Form 990 instructions state that organizations described in 501(c) generally must file Form 990 when gross receipts are at least $200,000; gross receipts are amounts received from all sources. IRS Form 8976 guidance also says …
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