¶ Status supported by the September 10 and 11 captures
Colorado appears on the IRS list of states that made an advance election for 2027. The retained IRS page dates that list July 24, 2026. It separately says a participating state must provide its SGO list to the IRS before an individual can contribute to an SGO in that state and claim the credit. Colorado's advance election therefore does not establish that any named organization is a qualified Colorado SGO. See the IRS Federal Scholarship Tax Credit page.
The retained monitoring evidence does not establish an official Colorado SGO list, an organization-specific qualification decision, or a completed Colorado application process. This is a limit of the inspected evidence, not proof that no such material exists. Several September 10 and 11 official search routes were blocked or unavailable; the CDE routes returned a generic search form and the Federal Register routes led to an access-check page. Those responses cannot support a substantive negative search result.
The IRS page describes a potential credit beginning January 1, 2027 for certain cash contributions up to $1,700. This summary tracks implementation sources; an organization's marketing language does not establish a donor's eligibility or the tax treatment of a transaction.
Treasury's Preview of Forthcoming Section 25F Guidance records Kevin Salinger's June 9, 2026 remarks. It anticipates proposed regulations by the end of September and expressly says the preview remains subject to legal review. The retained preview is not evidence that the anticipated regulations were issued.
The preview discusses state-specific segregated accounts for multistate SGOs, a possible spending-rule safe harbor, state business and charity requirements, student-eligibility verification, audits, duplicate-award safeguards, unique donor numbers, and a planned IRS administration portal. It describes further eligible-expense guidance under Section 530 as a separate workstream. These are attributed implementation plans, not final rules or evidence that a portal is operating.
The earlier Revenue Procedure 2026-6, Form 15714, and Notice 2025-70 captures belong to the same federal implementation sequence. Their advance-election and organization-qualification steps must remain distinct. The implementation timeline preserves the dated sequence; a subsequent official rule or list would require a new source comparison before this status changes.
The retained September 10 Colorado General Assembly page for HB26-1292 labels the bill Lost. Its history records the House Education Committee's April 30 motion to postpone it indefinitely. The earlier retained vote summary records 11 yes votes, no no votes, and two excused members.
The introduced bill and its fiscal note explain a proposed state response to Section 25F. They do not establish enacted requirements, a current CDE implementation assignment, a successor measure, or any organization's qualification. The former future-tense description of an upcoming April 30 hearing has been superseded by the recorded committee disposition.
¶ Organization monitoring and source posture
A monitored actor is a research lead, not an approved Colorado SGO. Keep these evidence classes separate:
| Evidence class |
What it supports |
What it does not establish |
| Official state or IRS organization-specific listing |
The status actually stated for the identified organization and period |
Qualification of a similarly named organization, an unlisted affiliate, or another period |
| IRS nonprofit and deductibility records; state formation or charity records |
The particular tax or registration attributes shown in the dated record |
Section 25F qualification, operational readiness, or participation by a school |
| An organization's website, product announcement, or intake form |
Its own public representations and advertised services at capture time |
Executed agreements, completed transactions, regulatory approval, or delivery of those services |
| Reporting, commentary, or event participation |
Attributed reporting or the documented event appearance |
Coordination, control, a money flow, or qualification |
| Name matches, shared addresses, and search or graph results |
Candidate leads requiring identity and source checks |
Identity equivalence or a substantive relationship |
¶ ACE Scholarships and EmpowerEd
ACE's September 10 captured EmpowerEd page markets scholarship-management technology and services to schools, associations, advisers, nonprofits, and faith-based organizations. It advertises 3% referral compensation or revenue returns in several audience sections. This is ACE's first-party offer, not a verified payment, executed partner agreement, compliance determination, or Colorado qualification decision. Its SGO-requirements page likewise describes ACE's proposed administration, donor processing, digital infrastructure, and revenue-sharing arrangement. See ACE's EmpowerEd page and ACE Scholarships.
The platform and partnership representations are distinct from tax-exempt status records, secondary descriptions of ACE, and the separately captured TPUSA event-sponsorship claim. None can substitute for an official Colorado organization-specific qualification source. Shared promotion or an event listing does not establish an operational scholarship or money-transfer channel.
¶ Other candidates and weak name leads
Earlier work retained bounded checks of National Lutheran Scholarship Fund, AAA Scholarship Foundation, Children's Scholarship Fund, Seeds of Hope, Parents Challenge, and other possible scholarship or service organizations. Their applicable records include nonprofit screening, first-party program descriptions, or attributed event context. No candidate is promoted to a qualified Colorado SGO by this maintenance pass.
The April formation-lead verification and name-refresh review distinguish the stronger website-based leads from generic scholarship, school, family, and learning-name matches. A formation-name match alone is insufficient reason to create an entity page or imply participation in this program. The retained research history preserves those weaker leads and dated search limitations for subsequent verification.
¶ Material maintenance and remaining evidence needs
The main status changes supported by the retained sequence are Colorado's federal advance-election listing, the April 30 disposition of HB26-1292, and the June Treasury preview. Later route checks and nonprofit screens must not be counted as additional policy changes merely because another capture was made.
Further durable updates require an inspected official rule, Colorado process or list, organization-specific qualification record, or executed operational evidence. A signed partner agreement or a financial record would support a different kind of claim from a marketing page. Retain the source, identify the exact organization and period, and establish the mechanism and actual flow before extending a relationship claim.
Daily access logs, repeated negative screens, and historical monitoring priorities are retained as local research records. They have been removed from the main narrative so the dated status and its limits remain intelligible. All existing internal source references remain in the page's provenance metadata.
¶ Source access and local retention
Atlas Trace retains research captures and provenance records locally. Public
originals, when available, appear in the Original links section below;
internal archive paths and restricted materials are not public links. See
Sources, access, and local retention.
- Federal Scholarship Tax Credit and Colorado SGO implementation source capture, 2026-04-21
- Federal Scholarship Tax Credit and Colorado SGO implementation source capture, 2026-04-21 (4)
- Federal Scholarship Tax Credit and Colorado SGO implementation source capture, 2026-04-21 (5)
- Federal Scholarship Tax Credit and Colorado SGO implementation source capture, 2026-04-21 (6)
- Federal Scholarship Tax Credit and Colorado SGO implementation source capture, 2026-04-21 (7)
- Federal Scholarship Tax Credit and Colorado SGO implementation source capture, 2026-04-21 (8)
- Federal Scholarship Tax Credit and Colorado SGO implementation source capture, 2026-04-21 (9)
- Federal Scholarship Tax Credit and Colorado SGO implementation source capture, 2026-04-21 (10)
- Federal Scholarship Tax Credit and Colorado SGO implementation source capture, 2026-04-21 (11)
- S. 4297 Keep Public Funds in Public Schools Act source capture, 2026-04-26
- S. 4297 Keep Public Funds in Public Schools Act source capture, 2026-04-26 (4)
- S. 4297 Keep Public Funds in Public Schools Act source capture, 2026-04-26 (5)
- S. 4297 Keep Public Funds in Public Schools Act source capture, 2026-04-26 (6)
- Colorado SGO official implementation refresh, 2026-04-26
- Colorado SGO official implementation refresh, 2026-04-26 (4)
- Colorado SGO formation leads and nonprofit-name refresh dataset capture, 2026-04-22
- Colorado SGO formation leads and nonprofit-name refresh dataset capture, 2026-04-22 (4)
- Colorado SGO formation leads and nonprofit-name refresh dataset capture, 2026-04-22 (5)
- Colorado SGO formation leads and nonprofit-name refresh dataset capture, 2026-04-22 (6)
- Colorado SGO formation leads and nonprofit-name refresh dataset capture, 2026-04-22 (7)
- Colorado SGO monitoring structured checks, 2026-04-25 (5)
- Colorado SGO monitoring structured checks, 2026-04-25 (6)
- Colorado SGO monitoring structured checks, 2026-04-26 (6)
- Colorado SGO monitoring structured checks, 2026-04-26 (7)
- Colorado SGO monitoring structured checks, 2026-04-26 (9)
- Federal scholarship tax credit official-source refresh, 2026-04-27 (8)
- Colorado SGO monitoring structured checks, 2026-04-28 (5)
- Colorado SGO monitoring structured checks, 2026-04-28 (6)
- Colorado SGO monitoring structured checks, 2026-04-28 (12)
- Federal scholarship tax credit official-source refresh, 2026-05-01 (7)
- Colorado federal scholarship tax credit official source refresh, 2026-05-05 (6)
- Colorado federal scholarship tax credit official source refresh, 2026-05-05 (13)
- Colorado federal scholarship tax credit official source refresh, 2026-05-05 (14)
- Colorado SGO monitoring ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer checks, 2026-05-05
- Colorado SGO candidate and ecosystem website checks, 2026-04-22
- Colorado SGO candidate and ecosystem website checks, 2026-04-22 (4)
- Colorado SGO candidate and ecosystem website checks, 2026-04-22 (5)
- Colorado SGO candidate and ecosystem website checks, 2026-04-22 (6)
- Colorado SGO candidate and ecosystem website checks, 2026-04-22 (7)
- Colorado SGO candidate and ecosystem website checks, 2026-04-22 (8)
- Colorado SGO candidate and ecosystem website checks, 2026-04-22 (9)
- Colorado SGO candidate and ecosystem website checks, 2026-04-22 (10)
- Colorado SGO candidate and ecosystem website checks, 2026-04-22 (11)
- Colorado SGO candidate and ecosystem website checks, 2026-04-22 (12)
- Colorado SGO candidate and ecosystem website checks, 2026-04-22 (13)
- Colorado SGO candidate and ecosystem website checks, 2026-04-22 (14)
- Colorado SGO candidate and ecosystem website checks, 2026-04-22 (15)
- Colorado SGO candidate and ecosystem website checks, 2026-04-22 (16)
- Colorado SGO candidate and ecosystem website checks, 2026-04-22 (17)
- Colorado SGO candidate and ecosystem website checks, 2026-04-22 (18)
- ACE Scholarships federal tax credit and SGO website checks, 2026-04-25
- ACE Scholarships federal tax credit and SGO website checks, 2026-04-25 (4)
- ACE Scholarships federal tax credit and SGO website checks, 2026-04-25 (5)
- ACE Scholarships federal tax credit and SGO website checks, 2026-04-25 (6)
- ACE Scholarships federal tax credit and SGO website checks, 2026-04-25 (7)
- ACE Scholarships federal tax credit and SGO website checks, 2026-04-25 (8)
- Colorado SGO candidate website refresh, 2026-05-02 (5)
- Colorado SGO candidate website refresh, 2026-05-02 (6)
- Colorado SGO candidate website refresh, 2026-05-02 (7)
- Colorado SGO candidate website checks, 2026-05-03 (6)
- Colorado SGO candidate website checks, 2026-05-03 (9)
- Colorado SGO candidate website checks, 2026-05-05
- Colorado SGO candidate website checks, 2026-05-05 (4)
- Colorado SGO candidate website checks, 2026-05-05 (12)
- Colorado SGO candidate website checks, 2026-05-05 (13)
- Colorado SGO candidate website checks, 2026-05-05 (14)
- Colorado SGO candidate website checks, 2026-05-05 (15)
- Colorado SGO candidate website checks, 2026-05-05 (16)
- Colorado SGO candidate website checks, 2026-05-05 (17)
- ACE / TPUSA Faith Make Heaven Crowded Tour source capture, 2026-05-06
- ACE / TPUSA Faith Make Heaven Crowded Tour source capture, 2026-05-06 (3)
- ACE / TPUSA Faith Make Heaven Crowded Tour source capture, 2026-05-06 (5)
- Colorado federal scholarship tax credit official source refresh, 2026-05-07 (6)
- Colorado SGO monitoring ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer checks, 2026-05-07 (8)
- Colorado SGO monitoring ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer checks, 2026-05-07 (9)
- Colorado SGO monitoring Secretary of State detail access-state checks, 2026-05-07
- Colorado SGO candidate website checks, 2026-05-07 (17)
- Colorado SGO candidate website checks, 2026-05-07 (18)
- Colorado SGO monitoring ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer checks, 2026-05-08 (9)
- Colorado SGO candidate website checks, 2026-05-08 (6)
- Colorado SGO candidate website checks, 2026-05-08 (10)
- Colorado SGO candidate website checks, 2026-05-08 (11)
- Colorado SGO candidate website checks, 2026-05-08 (14)
- Colorado SGO candidate website checks, 2026-05-08 (15)
- Colorado SGO candidate website checks, 2026-05-08 (16)
- ACE EmpowerEd / ECCA endpoint access-state, 2026-05-08
- ACE EmpowerEd / ECCA endpoint access-state, 2026-05-08 (4)
- ACE EmpowerEd / ECCA endpoint access-state, 2026-05-08 (5)
- Chalkbeat: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul intends to opt into federal tax-credit scholarship
- Chalkbeat Colorado: Gov. Polis says federal tax-credit program will not violate Colorado anti-discrimination laws
- ACE EFTC workflow intake and provider-surface capture, 2026-05-09 (7)
- ACE Scholarships launches EmpowerEd platform, PRNewswire, 2026-05-07
- Federal scholarship tax credit official source refresh, 2026-05-09
- Federal scholarship tax credit official source refresh, 2026-05-09 (10)
- Federal scholarship tax credit official source refresh, 2026-05-09 (11)
- Federal scholarship tax credit official source refresh, 2026-05-09 (12)
- Federal scholarship tax credit official source refresh, 2026-05-09 (14)
- Colorado SGO monitoring Socrata refresh, 2026-05-09
- Colorado SGO monitoring Socrata refresh, 2026-05-09 (3)
- Colorado SGO monitoring Socrata refresh, 2026-05-09 (4)
- Colorado SGO monitoring ProPublica nonprofit refresh, 2026-05-09 (10)
- Colorado SGO monitoring ProPublica nonprofit refresh, 2026-05-09 (11)
- Colorado SGO exact Socrata checks, 2026-05-09 late
- Colorado SGO monitoring ProPublica nonprofit refresh, 2026-05-10 (9)
- Colorado SGO monitoring ProPublica refresh, 2026-05-11
- Federal scholarship tax credit official source refresh, 2026-05-13 (11)
- ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer SGO watchlist refresh, 2026-05-15
- IRS TEOS SGO watchlist exact checks, 2026-05-15
- IRS TEOS exact EIN SGO candidate checks, 2026-05-17
- Federal scholarship tax credit official-source refresh, 2026-05-20 (6)
- Colorado charity-registration exact candidate follow-up, 2026-05-22
- IRS TEOS SGO candidate checks, 2026-05-30
- LearningSpring public web source check
- LearningSpring public web source check (4)
- LearningSpring public web source check (5)
- LearningSpring public web source check (6)
- LearningSpring public web source check (7)
- LearningSpring public web source check (8)
- LearningSpring public web source check (9)
- LearningSpring public web source check (10)
- LearningSpring public web source check (11)
- LearningSpring public web source check (12)
- Treasury preview of forthcoming Section 25F guidance
- ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer SGO follow-up exact checks, 2026-06-20
- ACE / ECCA no-submit route check, 2026-06-21 (7)
- Scholar Street SGO website capture, 2026-08-19
- Renew Scholarships public website check, 2026-08-22
- Other Democratic governors are wary of new Trump school funding program. Not Polis.
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