Ready Colorado is described in the current corpus as a recurring education-focused organization in Colorado education politics, including Advance Colorado network overlap, school-board spending context, allied education-policy campaigns, and official state lobbying records.
In this repository, Ready Colorado matters because it is one of the most education-specific organizations in the Colorado dark-money cluster. The current source set places it in school-board and policy fights while also describing it as a longer-running education-reform actor that became financially entangled with the Advance Colorado network. A newer CTR article sharpens that entanglement by describing staff overlap, reciprocal funding, and the group's awkward public opposition to ballot initiatives pushed by the same broader network.
The Who is Advance Colorado? one-hop ingest adds a directly retained 2024 Ready Colorado Form 990 PDF linked from the microsite. The companion note preserves the filing metadata and first-page extraction, including Ready Colorado's stated education-choice mission, 2015 formation year, and 2024 revenue and grants lines. Full filing extraction remains pending.
The 2026-04-28 Colorado SOS lobbying extract adds an official lobbying-record layer. In the retained extract, Ready Colorado appears in the Nexus Policy Group / Patrick Boyle client set in fiscal years 2020-2021 through 2025-2026; the same extract reports Nexus Policy Group income from Ready Colorado and preserves Ready Colorado bill-position rows. The strongest bridge for the D11 HopSkipDrive question is SB23-094 - School Transportation Task Force, where Ready Colorado, HopSkipDrive, and CLCS Action all appear with disclosed support positions. This is a lobbying and policy-interface fact, not evidence of coordination or D11 procurement influence.
$500,000 in 2022, while the earlier Unite for Colorado spent nearly $1.4 million on Ready in 20202024 Ready Colorado Form 990 PDF with first-page extraction2020-2021 through 2025-2026SB23-094 - School Transportation Task Force, alongside separate HopSkipDrive and CLCS Action support-position rowswiki/summaries/education/hopskipdrive-ready-colorado-lobbying-source-cluster-2021-2026.md: adds official Colorado SOS lobbying-registration, income, and bill-position records, including the SB23-094 school-transportation policy bridgewiki/summaries/education/advance-colorado-dark-money-network-and-school-board-influence.md: provides the main repository basis for Ready Colorado's funding links, partner role, and activity in school-board racesraw/papers/2026-04-18T215643-0600-ready-990-2024-3.md: companion note for the linked 2024 Ready Colorado Form 990 PDF2024 Form 990 is still needed before using it for line-level grant, vendor, salary, or governance claims.