This source cluster preserves a Colorado Times Recorder microsite, Who is Advance Colorado?, and every user-facing one-hop link found on the seed page. The cluster frames Advance Colorado as a ballot-initiative hub whose influence depends on three distinguishable layers: political capacity through ballot measures and aligned advocacy organizations, validation through Common Sense Institute research, and amplification through Anschutz-owned media outlets described in the source set as Clarity Media Group properties.
The cluster strengthens the existing Advance Colorado summary because it adds a curated landing page and seven linked tax-document PDFs. It does not by itself prove every causal or intent claim made in the microsite. The strongest direct-document evidence in this pass is the retained Form 990 or Schedule I material, especially the linked Schedule I records showing Advance Colorado -> Common Sense Institute grants in 2022 and 2023, and the High Hopes Colorado -> Advance Colorado grant in 2023.
The seed is a Squarespace microsite attributed on-page to Logan M. Davis and published under Colorado Times Recorder branding. It functions as an investigative landing page rather than a conventional article. Its anchor links include CTR articles already captured by the repo, seven media-hosted PDFs, the CTR homepage, and one internal Squarespace cart link.
The linked PDFs are mostly ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer renderings or filing excerpts. Companion notes preserve first-page extraction only; detailed grant-line extraction remains a follow-up need before the repo uses the PDFs for stronger transaction-level claims.
21 ballot initiatives for 2026, covering criminal sentencing or ICE power, clean-energy policy, and tax cuts.Advance_990_2022_partial.pdf companion note extracts a Schedule I row showing ADVANCE COLORADO granting $50,000 to COMMON SENSE INSTITUTE for GENERAL ASSISTANCE.Advance_990_2023_partial.pdf companion note extracts a Schedule I row showing ADVANCE COLORADO granting $40,000 to COMMON SENSE INSTITUTE for GENERAL ASSISTANCE.HHC_990_2023.pdf companion note extracts a Schedule I row showing HIGH HOPES COLORADO granting $150,000 to ADVANCE COLORADO for the donee's primary purpose.Ready_990_2024-3.pdf companion note identifies Ready Colorado as a 501(c)(4) organization with a stated education-choice mission, 2024 gross receipts of $1,313,301, and grants or similar amounts paid of $1,165,675.$600k in 90 Days? article adds a new source lead around Biz Action for Colorado, a reported $627,000 grant to Advance Colorado, a shared address, and Colorado Strong Business Alliance as a reported short-lived Advance Colorado trade-name project.2023 Schedule I row to Advance Colorado, with additional linked PDFs needing deeper extraction.2024 Form 990 PDFs.2011: CTR reporting says Common Sense Institute was founded as Common Sense Policy Roundtable.2015: the linked Ready Colorado PDF lists 2015 as Ready Colorado's formation year.2020: the microsite describes Advance Colorado as founded in 2020 after Colorado Republican losses in state government.2022: linked Schedule I material shows Advance Colorado granting $50,000 to Common Sense Institute.2023: linked Schedule I material shows High Hopes Colorado granting $150,000 to Advance Colorado and Advance Colorado granting $40,000 to Common Sense Institute.2023-10: the linked $600k in 90 Days? article reports West Group incorporated Biz Action for Colorado in late October 2023.2024-01: that same article reports paperwork for Colorado Strong Business Alliance as a trade name for Advance Colorado, followed by a Colorado Politics op-ed presenting CoSBA as an Advance Colorado project.2024: the linked Ready Colorado and Colorado Dawn PDFs preserve 2024 filing material.2025-11: a linked CTR article says Advance Colorado dominated the 2026 citizen ballot-initiative process.2026-04: the microsite and linked CTR persuasion-machine and tax-record articles package the network frame for public consumption.Biz Action for Colorado and Colorado Strong Business Alliance are high-value follow-up leads from one newly ingested CTR article. They need direct Colorado SOS, IRS, lobbying, and campaign-finance captures before receiving standalone durable pages.