Springs Opportunity Fund is a recurring El Paso independent expenditure committee name in the repository, now directly grounded by Colorado TRACER records, a bounded 2021 Colorado Springs Forward contribution and expenditure slice, a bounded 2025 expenditure slice, and a direct D11 Momentum site tying the fund to a public-facing school-board campaign brand.
In this repository, Springs Opportunity Fund matters because it appears in reporting as a major El Paso school-board race spender and is now directly documented through two retained Colorado TRACER committee-detail records. The current source base is strong enough for a durable committee page, but still not for a full donor or network map.
- Role or function: independent expenditure committee used in El Paso school-board politics
- Jurisdiction in current direct records: El Paso
- Retained committee IDs in current corpus:
20215041514 and 20235046590
- Shared direct-record features across both retained committees:
KATIE KENNEDY as registered agent and substantially similar purpose language centered on academic performance and educational choice
- Dedicated 2021 transaction-slice finding: final non-amended contribution rows identify
COLORADO SPRINGS FORWARD as the source of $180,000.00 to the 2021 committee, after an amendment corrected an original COLORADO SPRING FORWARD label
- Dedicated 2021 expenditure finding: final non-amended rows show
$179,998.94 in expenditures to COLE COMMUNICATIONS for advertising
- Direct 2025 expenditure pattern preserved in repo: four advertising disbursements to
AXIOM STRATEGIES totaling $45,101.40
- Dedicated 2025-2026 transaction-slice finding: no contribution or loan rows were returned for the active 2023 committee in that bounded capture
- Direct public-facing tie now retained in repo: the
D11 Momentum site collected SMS opt-ins for Springs Opportunity Fund and carried a paid-for-by disclaimer naming the committee
- Direct address context: the active 2023 TRACER committee record lists the Saint Vrain Suite 105 address, which now sits inside a broader official-record address cluster documented in the address-census source pass
- Municipal campaign-finance context: the City of Colorado Springs portal capture shows a 2021 Springs Opportunity Fund municipal committee profile at
2318 Curtis Street and an accounting-view sequence of $128,000.00 in Colorado Dawn contributions and $128,000.00 in expenditures to Cole Communications LLC
- Important context: the current repo supports committee existence, recurrence, and one bounded spending pattern more strongly than it supports donor-side or inter-organizational claims
¶ Evidence and source basis
- Springs Opportunity Fund TRACER committee history: bounded synthesis of the two committee-detail records plus the 2025 expenditure-export slice.
- Colorado Springs Forward / Springs Opportunity Fund TRACER and nonprofit source cluster: bounded source cluster connecting the 2021 SOF TRACER rows to Colorado Springs Forward records and preserving the unresolved Form 990 mismatch.
- a locally retained Colorado TRACER committee-detail record for the terminated 2021 committee.
- a locally retained Colorado TRACER committee-detail record for the active 2023 committee.
- a locally retained tracer bulk export slice from tracer.sos.colorado.gov, captured 2026-04-19T02:21:11-06:00, titled Springs Opportunity Fund TRACER transaction slice 2021: 2021 TRACER transaction slice showing final Colorado Springs Forward contribution rows and Cole Communications expenditure rows.
- a locally retained tracer committee detail page from tracer.sos.colorado.gov, captured 2026-04-19T03:20:00-06:00, titled Colorado Springs Forward State Political Funding Committee - 20165030265: direct TRACER committee-detail record for the related Colorado Springs Forward political funding committee.
- a locally retained official dataset address query from data.colorado.gov, captured 2026-04-19, titled Saint Vrain, Belleview, and Curtis address-census source pass: official address-census source pass that contextualizes the Saint Vrain Suite 105 and Belleview Suite 375 address clusters.
- a locally retained multi source campaign finance sweep from tracer.sos.colorado.gov, captured 2026-04-19, titled Address-census campaign-finance sweep since Advance Colorado formation: multi-source campaign-finance sweep for address-census entities since Advance Colorado's formation.
- a locally retained colorado springs campaign finance from web3.coloradosprings.gov, captured 2026-04-18T23:32:00-06:00, titled Springs Opportunity Fund Colorado Springs municipal campaign-finance capture: City of Colorado Springs municipal campaign-finance portal capture for Springs Opportunity Fund.
- a locally retained tracer bulk export slice from tracer.sos.colorado.gov, captured 2026-04-18T22:36:35-06:00, titled Springs Opportunity Fund TRACER transaction slice 2025-2026: dedicated 2025-2026 TRACER transaction slice confirming four Axiom Strategies expenditure rows and no returned contribution or loan rows in that capture.
- a locally retained dataset from Colorado TRACER, dated 2026-04-09: preserves the 2025 expenditure rows showing Axiom Strategies as the active committee's vendor.
- a locally retained source record from Colorado Times Recorder, published 2025-08-27, titled DAVIS: Your Questions About 'The Redprint,' Answered: reporting context describing Springs Opportunity Fund's role in El Paso school-board races and linking it to Katie Kennedy administration.
- a locally retained campaign site from d11momentum.sitecenter.us, published 2023-11-07, titled D11 Momentum: direct campaign-site tie showing Springs Opportunity Fund sponsoring a named D11 school-board slate.
- The current repo now has direct 2021 contributor rows naming
COLORADO SPRINGS FORWARD, but it does not yet identify the original fund source behind Colorado Springs Forward or reconcile the rows with Colorado Springs Forward's 2021 Form 990.
- The current repo does not yet have filing-image captures or a complete donor reconstruction for the 2023 active Springs Opportunity Fund committee.
- The current source base supports continuity of name, agent, and purpose across the 2021 and 2023 committees, but not a stronger legal conclusion about whether they should be treated as the same entity for all purposes.
- The Saint Vrain Suite 105 address context strengthens the infrastructure lead but does not prove Springs Opportunity Fund shared control or funding with other entities at the same suite.
¶ Source access and local retention
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