Colorado Springs Forward is a Colorado Springs 501(c)(6) and civic / business-advocacy actor represented in the repo through ProPublica / IRS records, historical official self-description, and related Colorado TRACER political-committee records. The current retained filing layer lists Lynette Crow Iverson, Phil Lane, Douglas Stimple, Tom Neppl, and Dan Nordberg as 2024 key employees / officers. Colorado Springs Forward is also the contributor label on final 2021 TRACER rows totaling $180,000.00 to Springs Opportunity Fund.
In a 2016 Colorado Springs Forward press release, the organization described itself as a nonprofit broad-based alliance of people and organizations committed to the success of the Pikes Peak region, formed by community leaders in April 2014. The same release described a mission to unite citizens, communities, and organizations in the Pikes Peak region to educate, collaborate, and coordinate around regional challenges and opportunities.
In the current filing layer, ProPublica classifies Colorado Springs Forward as a 501(c)(6) business-league / community-improvement organization. The current ColoradoSpringsForward.org domain did not serve an active organization site during the 2026-04-28 capture; it returned a domain-for-sale lander, so current board claims on this page are filing-based rather than sourced to a current official board page.
In this repository, Colorado Springs Forward matters because it sits at the junction of Colorado Springs civic-business politics, county-office political spending, and a direct TRACER money-flow record into the Springs Opportunity Fund school-board / local-election spending lane. The direct transaction evidence is strong, but the exact legal or account structure behind the COLORADO SPRINGS FORWARD contributor label remains unresolved.
46-5601272, subsection code 6, NTEE code S41111 S TEJON ST STE 307, Colorado Springs2015$383,700 revenue, $356,507 expenses, $30,395 ending assets$799,500 revenue, $820,678 expenses, $3,202 ending assetsCOLORADO SPRINGS FORWARD STATE POLITICAL FUNDING COMMITTEE, CO_ID 201650302652016-02-12, terminated 2024-10-14KATIE KENNEDYCOLORADO SPRINGS FORWARD IEC, CO_ID 201650314002016-06-03, terminated 2023-04-17KATIE KENNEDYThe strongest current board / officer layer in the repo is ProPublica's 2024 filing view:
| Person | Filing role | Compensation shown |
|---|---|---|
| Lynette Crow Iverson | Chairman | $130,955 |
| Phil Lane | Chair Of Board | $0 |
| Douglas Stimple | Secretary | $0 |
| Tom Neppl | Director | $0 |
| Dan Nordberg | Director | $0 |
ProPublica's 2023 filing view lists Lynette Crow Iverson, Phil Lane, Douglas Stimple, Tom Neppl, Kathy Loo, and Fletcher Howard.
The retained 2021 Form 990 OCR lists Phil Lane, Douglas Stimple, Tom Neppl, Kathy Loo, Lynette Crow-Iverson, and Fletcher Howard. The same filing identifies Lynette Crow-Iverson as principal officer and chairman.
A 2016 Colorado Springs Forward official press release listed Lynette Crow-Iverson as chair and Phil Lane, Kathy Loo, Douglas Stimple, Jariah Walker, and Tom Neppl as board members. That is historical official self-description, not proof of current board composition.
The 2021 Springs Opportunity Fund TRACER transaction slice contains final contribution rows from COLORADO SPRINGS FORWARD totaling $180,000.00:
$130,000 on 2021-10-08, filed 2021-11-01, Record ID 5955232$50,000 on 2021-10-14, filed 2021-11-01, Record ID 5955234The same TRACER slice shows Springs Opportunity Fund making 18 final expenditure rows to Cole Communications, totaling $179,998.94, for direct-mail, digital-advertising, and robocall-related advertising.
The repo now has direct source records for three related but distinct Colorado Springs Forward source surfaces: the 501(c)(6) nonprofit, the State Political Funding Committee, and the IEC. The two TRACER committees share the Tejon / Suite 307 address and Katie Kennedy registered-agent role, but their committee types, jurisdictions, and termination dates differ.
This matters because 2022 reporting on a campaign-finance complaint described confusion over whether candidate contributions came from the nonprofit or a related political committee, and separately reported that state investigators connected Colorado Springs Forward, through an independent expenditure committee, to Springs Opportunity Fund support for school-board candidates. That reporting strengthens the account-structure explanation for the 2021 SOF pathway. It does not settle which exact Colorado Springs Forward account or legal entity wrote the 2021 checks.
The 2021 Form 990 for Colorado Springs Forward does not reconcile on its face with the 2021 TRACER contribution rows. The Form 990 OCR supports $15,000 in gross receipts / contributions, $0 in grants and similar amounts paid, $21,276 in total expenses, and a No answer for direct or indirect political campaign activities.
For that reason, this page treats the 2021 TRACER contribution rows as direct evidence that a COLORADO SPRINGS FORWARD labeled source funded Springs Opportunity Fund. It does not yet assert that the 501(c)(6) nonprofit itself made the transaction, or that the TRACER state political funding committee was necessarily the source, without additional filing-level support.
wiki/summaries/local-civic-development/colorado-springs-forward-organization-description-and-board-source-cluster.md: source-cluster synthesis for current filing-based board rows, historical official self-description, and current-domain limitations.wiki/summaries/elections-finance/colorado-springs-forward-springs-opportunity-fund-tracer-and-nonprofit-source-cluster.md: bounded source-cluster synthesis for the CSF / SOF TRACER rows, nonprofit filings, leadership rows, and Schuck context.raw/articles/colorado-springs-forward-current-and-official-2026-04-28/capture-note.md: retained ProPublica organization page, 2016 official press-release PDF / text extraction, and current-domain lander capture.raw/datasets/tracer/springs-opportunity-fund-2021/springs-opportunity-fund-tracer-transaction-slice-2021.md: 2021 TRACER transaction slice showing final $180,000.00 contribution rows from COLORADO SPRINGS FORWARD to Springs Opportunity Fund.raw/tracer/committees/COLORADO SPRINGS FORWARD STATE POLITICAL FUNDING COMMITTEE - 20165030265.md: TRACER political-committee detail-page capture.raw/tracer/complaints/colorado-springs-forward-2022-30/capture-note.md: bounded follow-up package for the Colorado Springs Forward IEC and related complaint / article captures.raw/tracer/complaints/colorado-springs-forward-2022-30/colorado-springs-forward-iec-orgid-31400.html: direct TRACER committee-detail capture for COLORADO SPRINGS FORWARD IEC.raw/papers/colorado-springs-forward-irs-filings-2026-04-19/capture-note.md: ProPublica / IRS nonprofit filing source note and retained PDFs.raw/articles/2026-04-11T000816-0600 Dark Money and the School Board Industrial Complex.md: reporting context that previously described the CSF contribution to Springs Opportunity Fund and Phil Lane's role.ColoradoSpringsForward.org?COLORADO SPRINGS FORWARD TRACER contribution rows?ED2022-08, ED2022-25, 2022-30 / OAC records, or Colorado Springs Forward committee reports explain the account structure or amended reporting?