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 first-page, FEC, and address-census 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 preserves filing metadata and first-page extraction, but it has not yet been fully extracted or reconciled against the TRACER, business-entity, 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 domicilewiki/summaries/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/colorado-dawn-tracer-committee-detail.md: bounded direct-source synthesis of the TRACER registration, filing, balance, penalty, and complaint detailraw/papers/2026-04-18T215643-0600-colorado-dawn-990-2024.md: companion note for the linked 2024 Colorado Dawn Form 990 PDFraw/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 needs full extraction and reconciliation against the TRACER layer before it should support donor, governance, or filing-history synthesis.