The strongest finding is a direct Spruce-to-Legacy founder-pipeline and governance-formation relationship, grounded in D11 application records, current Legacy Fellowship material, and independent charter-support pages.
The strongest Parents Challenge relationship is narrower. Parents Challenge is directly connected to Legacy Institute through event-venue use and to Spruce through Spruce's D11 application claim that representatives participated in the Parents Challenge School Choice Fair. Current evidence does not show Parents Challenge funding, sponsoring, governing, contracting with, or controlling Spruce.
The user-supplied Legacy Foundation label did not resolve to a verified central entity in this pass. The direct source-backed nodes are Legacy Institute and Legacy Fellowship. Colorado Open Data returns many Legacy Foundation name matches, but no captured record ties those entities to Spruce, Parents Challenge, or the D11 charter application pipeline.
Spruce Community School is a D11-authorized public charter school planned to open in Fall 2026. D11's June 4, 2025 minutes record Spruce as an action item, identify Loren Koszowski as Spruce Executive Director, and record approval of Resolution 2025-41 by a 7-0 vote.
Current Spruce pages list Loren Koszowski as Founder / Executive Director and identify the current board as Dr. Elizabeth Domangue, Peter Maiurro, Dr. Tina Valtierra, Madeline Kurcz, Claudia De Santiago, Derry Adams, and Jeffrey Hawthorne. The board page describes Spruce as governed by an independent board of directors.
Spruce has a current address ambiguity. The homepage, contact, careers, enrollment, and footer content foreground 303 Austin Bluffs Parkway. The Spruce board page lists a March 4, 2026 board meeting at 525 North Tejon Street; the Colorado League directory and Colorado SOS newly formed nonprofit row also use 525 N Tejon. Treat 525 N Tejon as a confirmed meeting / listing / corporate-address signal, not proof of Legacy control.
D11's Spruce application says Loren Koszowski was selected for Legacy Fellowship, a 24-month program overseen by Legacy Institute, and completed over 100 hours of school visits plus over 600 hours of leadership training. The application also says Spruce founding-board candidates were interviewed by Legacy Institute leadership.
The CSGF 2025 Seed Cohort page independently lists Loren Koszowski as Founder of Spruce Community School in Colorado Springs and describes Spruce opening in Fall 2026. The ACE Scholarships source capture says Loren Koszowski was one of the first ACE Scholars and is now a founder of Spruce, described there as an ACE partner school.
Name caveat: Great Schools Colorado and the Legacy Fellowship page use Loren Reynolds for the Spruce executive / fellow, while D11, Spruce, CSGF, and ACE use Loren Koszowski. The current evidence strongly points to the same Spruce founder role, but a direct name-change / identity source remains missing.
Legacy Fellowship is a program run by Legacy Institute. Its page describes a paid two-year charter-school founder fellowship for people starting new charter schools in Colorado. Colorado Schools Fund says it supports Legacy Fellowship as a two-year paid training opportunity for aspiring public charter school founders.
Legacy Institute is the legal / nonprofit node. Colorado newly formed nonprofit data lists The Legacy Institute as a Good Standing DNC formed August 28, 2017, with principal address 525 N Tejon. The Colorado charity-registration row currently uses 1815 Coyote Point Dr and shows status GOOD; the ProPublica / IRS package uses 525 N Tejon and preserves nonprofit filing evidence.
Legacy's relationship to Spruce is direct for fellowship / founder development and governance formation. It is not, on current evidence, a D11 contractor, school operator, sponsor, or controller.
Parents Challenge's own site describes a school-choice program that provides information, training, mentoring, tools, and financial resources for families choosing education options. Its choice-options page says it lists public, private, and charter schools by region. Its contact page lists Deborah Hendrix as Executive Director and Cat Hendrix as Program Director.
The direct Spruce / Parents Challenge tie is a D11 application record: Spruce says its representatives participated in school-choice events including the Parents Challenge School Choice Fair. This is direct evidence of outreach / event participation, not proof of funding, sponsorship, or governance.
The direct Parents Challenge / Legacy tie is event-venue use: a Parents Challenge October 17, 2025 event page lists a Track 2: Nurturing Fathers session at Legacy Institute, 525 North Tejon Street. This is a direct venue / event relationship, not proof of sponsorship, funding, or control.
The D11 Spruce application also lists Deborah Hendrix, Executive Director of Parents Challenge, in a Legacy Institute Board support section. That is direct for the application record and title, but current board status still needs a current first-party Legacy roster or more recent filing.
Colorado Parents for Quality Education is a separate entity from Parents Challenge in the retained source base. Its current page describes a Colorado Springs parent-advocacy / school-family engagement organization founded by Charles Hendrix. Colorado newly formed nonprofit data lists CPQE as a DNC formed January 3, 2022, with status Noncompliant; the ProPublica profile lists EIN 87-4270601.
The direct Legacy / CPQE tie is Legacy Institute's 2023 IRS Schedule I grant row to CPQE for $12,500 in program services, already preserved in the Legacy Institute IRS package. No direct CPQE relationship to Spruce or D11 policy was found in this pass.
| source node | target node | relationship type | mechanism | time period | evidence strength | claim limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D11 board | Spruce Community School | charter oversight role / charter approval | Resolution 2025-41 | 2025-06-04 | direct | Approval does not prove adverse intent, outside control, or final operating terms. |
| Loren Koszowski | Spruce Community School | founder / employment or executive role | D11 application; current Spruce page | 2025-2026 | direct | Loren Reynolds variant remains unresolved. |
| Legacy Fellowship / Legacy Institute | Loren Koszowski / Spruce Community School | fellowship / advisory role / charter governance formation support | 24-month fellowship, school visits, training, board-candidate interviews | 2024-2026 application period | direct | No D11-Legacy contract, payment, sponsorship, or control record captured. |
| Charter School Growth Fund | Loren Koszowski / Spruce Community School | grant / cohort support | 2025 Seed Cohort page | 2025 | direct | CSGF page confirms cohort listing, not D11 decision influence. |
| Great Schools Colorado | Spruce Community School | grant / CSP subgrant | Awardees page and CSP subgrant article | 2025-2026 planning period | direct | GSC uses Loren Reynolds; name variant unresolved. |
| Colorado Schools Fund | Spruce Community School | charter-support listing / funder support | CSF Who We Support page |
current capture 2026-04-24 | direct | Page listing does not reveal grant terms. |
| Colorado Schools Fund | Legacy Fellowship | fellowship-support relationship | CSF statement that it supports Legacy Fellowship | current capture 2026-04-24 | direct | Does not identify the amount, contract, or conditions. |
| Parents Challenge | Legacy Institute | venue / event relationship | Parents Challenge event at Legacy Institute, 525 North Tejon | 2025-10-17 | direct | Venue use is not sponsorship, funding, control, or coordination. |
| Spruce Community School | Parents Challenge | school-choice event participation | Parents Challenge School Choice Fair listed in D11 application | 2025 application | direct for application claim | Does not prove Parents Challenge funding, sponsorship, governance, or material support. |
| Deborah Hendrix / Parents Challenge | Legacy Institute support section | nonprofit affiliation / board-support adjacency | Spruce application's Legacy Institute Board support section |
2025 application | direct for application record | Current Legacy board status and role details remain unresolved. |
| Legacy Institute | Colorado Parents for Quality Education | grant relationship | IRS Schedule I grant | FY ending 2023-08 | direct | CPQE relationship to D11 / Spruce remains unresolved. |
| Spruce Community School | 525 N Tejon / Legacy address environment | address / meeting-location overlap | SOS row, Colorado League listing, Spruce board meeting schedule | 2025-2026 | direct for address records | Shared address / meeting location is not control, funding, or sponsorship. |
Legacy Foundation entity was identified as the relevant node.