Colorado Springs Forward is a Colorado Springs 501(c)(6) and civic / business-advocacy actor now represented in the repo through ProPublica / IRS records and a related Colorado TRACER political-committee record. It is also the contributor label on final 2021 TRACER rows totaling $180,000.00 to Springs Opportunity Fund.
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 KENNEDYProPublica's 2024 filing view lists:
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.
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 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/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/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/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.COLORADO SPRINGS FORWARD TRACER contribution rows?