High Hopes Colorado is a nonprofit organization that appears in the Advance Colorado source cluster as a donor-conduit candidate. The strongest direct evidence retained in this pass is a 2023 Schedule I excerpt showing High Hopes Colorado granting $150,000 to Advance Colorado.
In this repository, High Hopes Colorado matters because CTR reporting and the Who is Advance Colorado? microsite describe it as part of the money-moving layer around Advance Colorado, Common Sense Institute, and donor-family funding. The direct document layer added in this pass confirms at least one High Hopes Colorado grant to Advance Colorado, while the broader asserted donor-path narrative still needs direct grant-table support beyond the bounded negative text check of two linked Anschutz PDFs.
- Role or function: nonprofit grantmaking / donor-conduit candidate in the current source cluster.
- Direct grant evidence retained in this pass:
HIGH HOPES COLORADO Schedule I row listing $150,000 to ADVANCE COLORADO in 2023.
- Related source claims: CTR reporting says High Hopes Colorado has moved money in the Advance Colorado network and has donor-family links. Those claims should remain attributed until the full filing set is extracted.
- Important context: this page is intentionally narrow and should not be used as a complete organizational profile.
- Advance Colorado: direct
2023 Schedule I grant recipient in the retained HHC_990_2023 companion note.
- Common Sense Institute: appears in the same broader CTR reporting frame, but the current pass does not show a direct High Hopes to CSI grant row.
¶ Evidence and source basis
- a locally retained pdf from media.coloradotimesrecorder.com, captured 2026-04-18T21:56:43-06:00, titled HHC_990_2023.pdf: first-page Schedule I text sample showing High Hopes Colorado's
$150,000 grant to Advance Colorado.
- a locally retained pdf from media.coloradotimesrecorder.com, captured 2026-04-18T21:56:43-06:00, titled Anschutz_990_2017.pdf and a locally retained pdf from media.coloradotimesrecorder.com, captured 2026-04-18T21:56:43-06:00, titled Anschutz_990_2018.pdf: linked tax-document PDFs retained for later extraction; current companion notes only preserve first-page metadata and do not yet extract all grant rows.
- a locally retained article from Colorado Times Recorder, published 2025-08-20, titled The Redprint: How Advance Colorado and Anonymous Donors Shape the Political Landscape: CTR reporting that places High Hopes Colorado in the Advance Colorado network.
- Who is Advance Colorado microsite and linked tax-document cluster: bounded summary of the microsite and linked-source pass.
- A 2026-04-21 text extraction pass on the linked Anschutz Foundation 2017 and 2018 Form 990-PF PDFs did not find direct text-layer matches for
High Hopes, Advance Colorado, Common Sense, Ready Colorado, Colorado Dawn, or Independence Institute. That reduces the value of those two PDFs for the current High Hopes question, but it is not a normalized grant-table audit and should not be treated as disproving all possible donor-family links.
- The repo still lacks a direct current High Hopes Colorado organizational page, governance source, or full filing-history summary.
¶ Source access and local retention
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