Ready Colorado is described in the current corpus as a recurring education-focused organization in the Advance Colorado network, especially through shared staff, funding overlap, school-board spending, and allied education-policy campaigns.
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.
$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 extractionwiki/summaries/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.