This summary compiles a direct Colorado TRACER committee-detail capture for Colorado Dawn's statewide independent expenditure committee, now supplemented by direct business, tax, FEC, and address-census records. In the current repo, it matters because it turns Colorado Dawn from a reporting-described network node into a more directly documented political committee and nonprofit record with committee type, registration date, stated purpose, filing cadence, enforcement metadata, and address context.
The core source is a Colorado Secretary of State TRACER committee-detail page captured on 2026-04-09 for organization ID 43758. It is a direct administrative record for COLORADO DAWN IEC rather than secondary reporting. The later address-census pass adds official Colorado business-entity records, a Colorado Dawn business-summary capture, a Form 990 first-page extraction, and an official FEC committee overview capture. The existing Advance Colorado summary remains useful for network framing, but the direct records are stronger for formal committee, nonprofit, and address facts.
- The captured committee record identifies
COLORADO DAWN IEC as an active statewide independent expenditure committee with committee ID 20225043758.
- The committee was registered on
09/27/2022 and is typed in the current capture as a corporation-backed committee with 0.00% foreign ownership.
- The stated committee purpose is to support state, county, and municipal candidates, regardless of party affiliation, whose policies will strengthen the economy, society, and education system.
- The registered agent in the current capture is
KATIE KENNEDY, with Colorado Springs contact information matching the committee record.
- Direct address records now place Colorado Dawn / Colorado Dawn IEC at the Saint Vrain Suite 105 cluster across Colorado business records, TRACER committee detail, the Colorado Dawn Form 990 first page, and an official FEC committee overview.
- The Colorado SOS business-summary capture lists
Colorado Dawn as a Colorado nonprofit corporation formed on 2021-01-20, with the Saint Vrain suite as principal and mailing address and Katie Kennedy as registered agent at 2318 Curtis St.
- The official FEC committee overview for
COLORADO DAWN (C00826743) lists active Super PAC status, independent expenditure-only type, 2022-10-11 registration date, the Saint Vrain Suite 105 address, and Katie Kennedy as treasurer.
- The financial summary preserved in the capture shows a negative ending balance of
($52,428.75) on the JANUARY 15, 2026 report covering the period ending 12/31/2025, with zero donations, zero loans received, zero expenditures, and zero loans repaid in that retained summary window.
- The capture also preserves a recent filing-history table plus penalties and complaints, including open late-filing penalty entries from 2024 and open complaints from 2024.
- A newly added bounded batch note for statewide TRACER exports adds one direct 2025 expenditure-row match showing a
$15,000 contribution from COLORADO SPRINGS HOUSING AND BUILDERS ASSOCIATION POLITICAL FUNDING COMMITTEE to COLORADO DAWN, filed on 2025-10-15.
- The same statewide-export slice did not yield a clean direct Colorado Dawn contribution match in the retained 2025 or 2026 contribution exports, and it did not yield a direct 2026 expenditure match.
- No separate concept page is justified from this direct committee-detail capture alone.
2022-09-27: committee registration date in the TRACER record.2023-09-13: one preserved settlement entry appears as paid in the penalties table.2024-05-28 and 2024-10-17 / 2024-10-28: complaint dates preserved in the current capture.2026-01-15: latest retained report summary in the current capture.
- The source strengthens the repo's Colorado dark-money and education-politics slice by adding direct committee-administration evidence to a cluster that previously leaned more heavily on reporting and webinar material.
- On its own, this direct record does not prove the fuller network relationships described in secondary reporting; it mainly anchors Colorado Dawn's formal committee existence and reporting history.
¶ Evidence limits and open questions
- The committee-detail page is strong for registration, filing cadence, and enforcement metadata, and the statewide export slice adds one bounded expenditure-row match, but the repo still does not have a full donor-flow or expenditure-detail layer for Colorado Dawn.
- The capture does not by itself resolve the exact legal or operational relationship between Colorado Dawn, Advance Colorado, and other aligned organizations described elsewhere in the repo.
- The address-census layer supports shared-address facts. It does not prove shared control, sponsorship, donor flow, or coordination among every entity at Saint Vrain Suite 105.
- A later pass could add filing-image or report-level captures if Colorado Dawn becomes a central finance actor in the corpus.