Colorado Dawn is described in the current corpus as an aligned organization in the Advance Colorado network that channels money into education and election fights, especially around state and local school-governance contests. The page is now also grounded in direct Colorado TRACER, Colorado SOS business, Form 990, FEC, municipal, address-census, recipient-committee, and deduplicated allocation records.
In this repository, Colorado Dawn matters because it appears as one of the clearest intermediary organizations in the dark-money reporting around Advance Colorado. The current corpus still treats it less as a standalone policy institution than as a repeat vehicle through which money and political influence are routed into Colorado education and electoral disputes, but the new TRACER capture adds direct evidence that Colorado Dawn operates through an active statewide independent expenditure committee with its own registration, filing, penalty, and complaint history.
The Who is Advance Colorado? one-hop ingest adds a linked 2024 Colorado Dawn Form 990 PDF. The current companion note now preserves filing metadata, first-page extraction, Schedule B visibility limits, selected Schedule I grant rows, and selected Schedule C / Schedule O fields, but it still has not been fully reconciled against the TRACER, business-entity, municipal, and FEC committee layers.
COLORADO DAWN IEC (20225043758), an active statewide independent expenditure committee registered on 2022-09-27KATIE KENNEDY2021-01-20, with the Saint Vrain suite as principal and mailing address and Katie Kennedy as registered agent at 2318 Curtis StCOLORADO DAWN (C00826743) lists the Saint Vrain Suite 105 address, Katie Kennedy as treasurer, active Super PAC status, and 2022-10-11 registration date2020-12-08 total $3,997,790.42 from Colorado Dawn, OpenFEC Schedule A receipts for Colorado Dawn total $91,978.80, the City of Colorado Springs citywide current-filing supplement shows $1,805,555.50 in municipal contributor rows from Colorado Dawn, and the focused Springs Opportunity Fund capture supports $128,000.00 in accounting-view municipal contributions from Colorado Dawn$15,000 contribution to COLORADO DAWN from COLORADO SPRINGS HOUSING AND BUILDERS ASSOCIATION POLITICAL FUNDING COMMITTEE2024 Colorado Dawn Form 990 PDF from the microsite ingest, with first-page extraction showing 100 EAST SAINT VRAIN ST SUITE 105, EIN 86-1580225, gross receipts of $7,439,700, principal officer Steve Durham, formation year 2021, and Colorado domicile$7,439,700 in 2024 contributions and grants, but the public Schedule B contributor fields are restricted2022-2026 TRACER slice shows $173,488.00 in final contributions to COLORADO DAWN IEC, including self-referential Colorado Dawn rows and smaller named rows from OUR COMMUNITY OUR FUTURE, PROTECT OUR KIDS, Diane Smethills, Charles McNeil, Joy Hoffman, and Mary Margaret WrightC00826743 shows $91,978.80 in itemized Schedule A receipts, all listing COLORADO DAWN as contributorCSSNC, but the EIN/address/timing and City of Colorado Springs municipal committee records strongly corroborate Colorado Springs Safe Neighborhood Coalition; the public Form 990 does not spell out the full name$5.99 million in visible direct and own-vehicle activity across candidate-election, ballot, school-board-linked, mixed-lane, and local buckets; this is not a statewide total or complete donor universewiki/summaries/education/advance-colorado-dark-money-network-and-school-board-influence.md: provides the repository basis for Colorado Dawn as part of the Advance Colorado network and as a conduit in school-board and state-education election spendingraw/tracer/committees/COLORADO DAWN IEC - 20225043758.md: direct Colorado TRACER committee-detail record for Colorado Dawn's active statewide independent expenditure committeeraw/datasets/2026-04-09T130500-0600 colorado-dawn-tracer-statewide-export-slice.md: bounded batch note for the newly added statewide TRACER exports, including one direct 2025 expenditure-row match naming Colorado Dawnwiki/summaries/elections-finance/colorado-dawn-tracer-committee-detail.md: bounded direct-source synthesis of the TRACER registration, filing, balance, penalty, and complaint detailwiki/summaries/nonprofit-civic/colorado-dawn-funding-source-cluster-2021-2026.md: bounded funding-source synthesis for Colorado Dawn nonprofit totals, restricted Schedule B visibility, state IEC receipts, and OpenFEC receipts.wiki/summaries/elections-finance/colorado-dawn-downstream-allocation-source-cluster-2021-2026.md: bounded downstream-allocation synthesis for visible Colorado Dawn nonprofit, TRACER, municipal, and OpenFEC outflow paths.wiki/summaries/claim-checks/colorado-dawn-recipient-committee-detail-and-deduplication-source-cluster-2022-2026.md: direct recipient-committee classification and first-pass deduplication synthesis for Colorado Dawn allocation evidence.raw/datasets/campaign-finance/colorado-conservative-allocation-dedup-2018-2026/capture-note.md: derived comparison table explaining no-double-counting treatment across Form 990, TRACER, municipal, and FEC layers.raw/datasets/colorado-springs-campaign-finance/colorado-springs-safe-neighborhood-coalition-2022-2024/capture-note.md: City of Colorado Springs municipal capture supporting the CSSNC reconciliation and 2022 / 2024 local ballot contribution paths.raw/tracer/committees/colorado-dawn-recipient-committee-details-2026-04-20/capture-note.md: TRACER committee-detail capture for WELD STRONG, Coloradans for Accountable Government, Constitutional Conservatives of El Paso County, and Recall Priola.raw/papers/2026-04-18T215643-0600-colorado-dawn-990-2024.md: companion note for the linked 2024 Colorado Dawn Form 990 PDFraw/papers/colorado-dawn-propublica-profile-2026-04-20.md: ProPublica profile and extracted filing totals for 2021, 2022, and current profile metadata.raw/datasets/tracer/colorado-dawn-iec-2022-2026/colorado-dawn-iec-tracer-transaction-slice-2022-2026.md: direct Colorado TRACER transaction slice for Colorado Dawn IEC contribution and expenditure rows.raw/datasets/fec/colorado-dawn-c00826743-2022-2026/capture-note.md: direct OpenFEC committee, totals, and Schedule A capture for the Colorado Dawn federal Super PAC.raw/datasets/colorado-sos-business/colorado-dawn-20211055160-business-summary.md: direct Colorado SOS business-summary capture for Colorado Dawn's nonprofit corporation recordraw/datasets/colorado-sos-business/address-census-saint-vrain-belleview-2026-04-19.md: official address-census source pass placing Colorado Dawn and Colorado Dawn IEC in the exact Saint Vrain Suite 105 clusterraw/datasets/fec/address-overlap-fec-committee-overview-captures-2026-04-19.md: official FEC committee overview capture for Colorado Dawn's federal committee address and treasurer fieldsraw/datasets/campaign-finance/address-census-entity-sweep-since-advance-colorado-2020-2026/address-census-campaign-finance-sweep-2026-04-19.md: multi-source campaign-finance sweep for address-census entities since Advance Colorado's formation.raw/datasets/colorado-springs-campaign-finance/address-census-citywide-current-filings-2020-2026/capture-note.md: City of Colorado Springs citywide current-filing supplement with exact-name municipal contributor rows for Colorado Dawn.raw/datasets/colorado-springs-campaign-finance/springs-opportunity-fund-city-portal-2021-2026/capture-note.md: City of Colorado Springs municipal campaign-finance portal capture showing Colorado Dawn contributions to Springs Opportunity Fund.2024 Form 990 now has bounded extraction for top-line revenue, Schedule B visibility, Schedule C, and selected Schedule I grants. A first-pass deduplication table now prevents obvious double-counting against TRACER, OpenFEC, and municipal layers, but it is not a complete cycle-by-cycle reconciliation.