The follow-up verification of the 17 last-12-month scholar / scholarship-name nonprofit formation leads found one strong SGO-appearance launch signal: National Lutheran Scholarship Fund. Its website uses 2027 federal tax-credit scholarship language and recruits families, schools, donors, and ambassadors around Christian / Lutheran education.
The pass also found several newly recognized or newly formed 501(c)(3) scholarship organizations, but most look like memorial, collegiate, athletic, or generic scholarship vehicles rather than Section 25F / K-12 tuition scholarship candidates. One matched organization, Macaulay Wank Scholarship Foundation, is identified in IRS / Pub. 78 materials as a private foundation, which cuts against SGO eligibility unless that status changes because the retained federal guidance requires an SGO not to be a private foundation.
No checked source establishes that any of the 17 is a qualified Colorado SGO or appears on a Colorado State SGO list.
This was a bounded verification pass, not a broad crawl. The checks were:
| Formation lead | IRS EO / Pub. 78 status | Colorado charity status | Website / filing signals | SGO relevance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rising Scholars Inc. | No direct match to the Colorado row. IRS / Pub. 78 name-similar hits are out-of-state Rising Scholars variants. |
No matching Colorado charity row found. | Search found a Georgia doctoral-support site, not a Colorado K-12 tuition source. | Unverified formation-only Colorado lead. |
| Tracy E Hill PhD & Associates Resilience Scholarship Foundation | No direct match. The BMF / Pub. 78 extraction surfaced a Georgia Excellence and Resilience Scholarship Fund by phrase similarity, not legal-name match. |
No matching Colorado charity row found. | No relevant website located in this bounded pass. | Unverified formation-only lead. |
| Dalton Major Hisle Scholarship Fund | Near-direct IRS / Pub. 78 match as Dalton Major Hisle Scholarship, EIN 41-4505081, 501(c)(3), Pub. 78 PC, ruling 202603. |
No matching Colorado charity row found. | No donor/family/school website located. | 501(c)(3) scholarship lead, but no K-12 tuition or SGO language found. |
| John Sutphin III Memorial Scholarship | No BMF / Pub. 78 match found. | No matching Colorado charity row found. | Obituary source says memorial contributions may be made through Wiley Consolidated School. | Memorial scholarship lead; no separate 501(c)(3), SGO, or K-12 tuition signal found. |
| Austin Worbington Memorial Scholarship Fund | IRS / Pub. 78 match, EIN 41-3737570, 501(c)(3), Pub. 78 PC, ruling 202602. |
No matching Colorado charity row found. | SCI Colorado page says the fund provides annual scholarship(s) to a student athlete from Falcon High School and accepts donations. | Student-athlete memorial scholarship; no Section 25F / SGO signal found. |
| CCR Scholarship Foundation | No BMF / Pub. 78 match found. | No matching Colorado charity row found. | No relevant website located beyond business-index echoes. | Unverified formation-only lead. |
| Laura Helen Foote Memorial Scholarship Fund | No BMF / Pub. 78 match found. | No matching Colorado charity row found. | No relevant website located beyond business-index echoes. | Unverified formation-only lead. |
| National Lutheran Scholarship Fund | IRS / Pub. 78 match, EIN 39-4980218, 501(c)(3), Pub. 78 PC, ruling 202511. |
No matching Colorado charity row found. | NLSF pages mention 2027 scholarships, the Federal Tax Credit Program, families up to 300% AMI, Christian / Lutheran education, school partnership, donor redirection, and current tax-deductible donations. | Strong SGO-appearance / launch-signal lead, still unconfirmed as a listed or qualified Colorado SGO. |
| Sound Scholars | No BMF / Pub. 78 match found. | No matching Colorado charity row found. | No relevant website located in this bounded pass. | Unverified formation-only lead. |
| Bridge to Health Scholars | IRS / Pub. 78 match, EIN 39-4626810, 501(c)(3), Pub. 78 PC, ruling 202511. |
One Colorado charity row found: initial registration approved 2025-10-08, current status GOOD, but taxexemptstatus N and donations tax deductible N. |
Search surfaced app-store index pages for a game developer named Bridge to Health Scholars; no scholarship donor/family/K-12 page located. | 501(c)(3) scholarship-name lead with a Colorado charity-status discrepancy; no SGO signal found. |
| Vivian Cheney Memorial Music Scholarship | No BMF / Pub. 78 match found. | No matching Colorado charity row found. | No relevant website located beyond business-index echoes. | Unverified formation-only lead. |
| Scottie's Scholarship, LLC | IRS / Pub. 78 match as Scotties Scholarship LLC, EIN 39-2998884, 501(c)(3), Pub. 78 PC, ruling 202508. |
No matching Colorado charity row found. | No relevant website located beyond business-index echoes. | 501(c)(3) scholarship lead; no K-12 tuition or SGO language found. |
| V.E.T. Scholarship Foundation Inc. | No BMF / Pub. 78 match found. | No matching Colorado charity row found. | No relevant website located beyond business-index echoes. | Unverified formation-only lead. |
| Macaulay Wank Scholarship Foundation | IRS / Pub. 78 match, EIN 39-2360822, 501(c)(3), Pub. 78 PF, ruling 202508. |
No matching Colorado charity row found. | No relevant website located beyond charity-profile / business-index echoes. | Scholarship 501(c)(3), but Pub. 78 private-foundation coding makes it a weak SGO candidate under current federal requirements. |
| Willow King scholarship | No BMF / Pub. 78 match found. | No matching Colorado charity row found. | No relevant website located in this bounded pass. | Unverified formation-only lead. |
| Next Step Mustang Scholars | IRS / Pub. 78 match, EIN 33-4891515, 501(c)(3), Pub. 78 PC, ruling 202507, Georgia address. |
No matching Colorado charity row found. | Third-party profiles call it a Warner Robins scholarship organization; no Colorado K-12 tax-credit language located. | Out-of-state scholarship 501(c)(3) lead, not a Colorado SGO signal on current evidence. |
| Muscle + Mindset Collegiate Athlete Scholarship Program | IRS / Pub. 78 match as Muscle and Mindset Collegiate Athlete Scholarship Program, EIN 33-4714298, 501(c)(3), Pub. 78 PC, ruling 202506. |
No matching Colorado charity row found. | Website says it supports high school seniors or collegiate athletes in powerlifting / Olympic weightlifting with coaching, competition fees, and travel expenses; event page says proceeds support its 501(c)(3) scholarship program. | Donor-facing scholarship nonprofit, but scope is collegiate / athletic rather than K-12 tuition or SGO. |
National Lutheran Scholarship Fund is the only one of the 17 with direct public language resembling Section 25F launch preparation: federal tax-credit language, 2027 scholarship timing, family eligibility language, school-partner intake, donor redirection rhetoric, and Christian / Lutheran school focus.
Muscle and Mindset is a real donor-facing scholarship nonprofit, but its own pages define the scholarship program around athletes, coaching, competition fees, travel expenses, and collegiate strength sports. That makes it a 501(c)(3) scholarship lead, not an SGO lead.
Austin Worbington and John Sutphin appear to be memorial scholarship pathways connected to named individuals and specific school / community contexts. They should stay in the lead file only if later evidence shows a pivot toward broader Section 25F or K-12 tuition operations.
None of these checks establish official Colorado SGO qualification. Federal tax-exempt status, Pub. 78 eligibility, Colorado business formation, Colorado charitable registration, or donor-facing website language is not enough. The missing evidence remains a Colorado State SGO list, an official application / approval process, or first-party organization claims tied to Colorado SGO qualification and later confirmed by official state or IRS materials.
The Bridge to Health Scholars charity-registration discrepancy needs a later refresh. The Colorado charity row and the IRS / Pub. 78 / ProPublica evidence appear to point to the same EIN but disagree on tax-exempt and donation-deductibility status. This may reflect timing, form entry, state-registration status, or a data-quality issue.
For the broader same-day name refresh beyond these 17 rows, see Colorado SGO name refresh and deeper nonprofit checks, 2026-04-22.
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