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Utah parent network: executive summary

The local records document distinct organizations sharing named people, promoting or distributing one another’s materials, and participating in specific advocacy activities. They also document specific payments. They do not establish that these organizations are one legal entity, that one controls the whole network, or that Hope of Utah’s state funding reached RatedBooks.

Prepared 2026-10-04 from preserved local records. The packet contains 54 inventory entries, 109 relationship rows, 59 dated people-role rows, 36 money rows, 21 information-flow rows and 23 artifact comparisons. Inventory entries include products, public bodies and unresolved source labels; they are not a count of verified corporations.

Directly documented relationships

• UPU and Utah Parents in Action: the PAC explicitly names UPU as its affiliated organization. They remain separate records. The PAC also has named officer overlap with UPU and Empowered Parents. Statement of Organization, soo.html
• UPU and Empowered Parents: dated director overlap, the same filed mailing suite, and EP’s first-party “Partner with Utah Parents United” wording. A legal sister relationship is not established. UPU report; EP report; EP page
• Hope and RatedBooks / Empowered Parents: Hope’s affiliate page links the two named sites. The page has 18 named entries plus a placeholder, not 19 identified organizations. Hope and EP also name Phoenix Business Solutions in different administrative roles. An affiliate listing is not a grant record. Hope affiliate page; Open relationships.csv
• StoryLabs, NBRI and S&S Apps: StoryLabs explicitly identifies the LLC as its product operator. NBRI’s About page presents S&S Apps as its business. The separately registered RatedBooks nonprofit shares a named person and filed address with the LLC. No ownership or service agreement between the nonprofit and LLC is established. StoryLabs About; RatedBooks articles; NBRI disclosure
• Utah / national MFA / MFA Action: national MFA announces a Utah team; Utah biographies give named people Action roles; the national filing index lists Action in Schedule R. The 2025 Utah corporation has its own EIN 39-4791854. The full national Schedule R and a Utah charter/control agreement were not located. 2024 release; Team biographies; Utah determination letter; Preserved ScheduleR search extract

Legal and operational distinctions

UPU (86-2759097), Empowered Parents (81-1431524), Hope (33-1592354), RatedBooks nonprofit (39-2728966), Utah MFA (39-4791854), national MFA (43-2065966) and MFA Action (84-4804708) have distinct identities in the cited records. UPIA is the separately registered PAC (1415227); S&S Apps is an LLC (Utah 12115414-0160; California 201803810036). StoryLabs and NBRI are documented products/sites, not independently established corporations. The RatedBooks website predates the 2025 nonprofit. Open entity_inventory.md

The known 2024 Utah leadership team is kept separate from proof of the Utah corporation formedOctober 9, 2025. Different office addresses at different dates may reflect moves; the map does not treat those differences as contradictions by themselves. National MFA and Action both appear at the same Branson mailing address in different dated records, so the city cannot resolve an ambiguous payee. National MFA grantee record; Action record

People appearing in multiple organizations

The table below summarizes the dated role records. A repeated person does not establish simultaneous service, institutional succession or coordinated decisions. Open people.csv

Kimberly Fletcher is named on RatedBooks’2025 board and as national MFA founder, but this pass does not promote that same-name observation into a confirmed personal-identity bridge. The 2026 RatedBooks principal list does not list Fletcher or Peterson; exact departure dates remain unknown. StoryLabs About; RatedBooks articles; 2024 release; Team biographies

Where money moves

All amounts below are as filed; the money CSV preserves transaction IDs, purpose labels, exact files, date precision and unresolved identities. Do not sum annual aggregates with individual transactions. Open money.csv

No verified transaction in this packet allocates Hope money to RatedBooks, EP, UPU or S&S Apps. The local annual return leaves recipients unnamed. That is an evidence gap, not proof no transfer happened.

Where information and electoral activity occur

UPU’s 2022 challenge instructions use RatedBooks reports and maps and refer readers to a StoryLabs offer. Its 2023 app notice promotes an EP calendar using a StoryLabs link. Utah MFA’s resources page gives StoryLabs class code utmfa. RatedBooks’ Rating Teams page refers readers to BookLook.info, Take Back the Classroom and Screen It First. These are specific published routes, not evidence that every intended recipient received or used the material. Open information_flow.csv

The UCC post documents a request for support for a UPU-prepared HB29 letter. Shared signatures on other handouts establish shared public support only. UPU’s 2024 voter newsletter says it “teamed up with AmplifyUSA” for school-board candidate research. A preserved April 25, 2024 app notice reproduces “MOMS FOR AMERICA ACTION UTAH” endorsements and links the national Action page; its sender UUID and the Utah legal counterpart remain unresolved. UCC post1512; UPU voter newsletter; NoticeHQX7mOT6MQGLLtfYXbrn

Stephens’August 2025 email uses an utahmomsforamerica.com address to distribute book-content findings to officials. The thread does not confirm auditor contact. Separately, OLAG’s report states it used the RatedBooks list via an unnamed legislator. In 2026 a survey draft naming RatedBooks moved from Mike Green to Emily Green and into staff-formatted backup; those emails do not identify the original writer or show Stephens supplied the draft. Open information_flow.csv

The independent artifact pass found 12/14 byte-identical paired BookLooks/RatedBooks PDFs, three DSD workbook/instruction recaptures with equal extracted content but different bytes, and Word/PDF survey versions retaining the same RatedBooks example. These do not prove common authorship. Open artifact_matches.csv

Ten strongest pieces of evidence

1. UPIA’s explicit UPU affiliation. “Name of organization affiliated with the PAC” → “Utah Parents United”. Separate PAC and corporate identities; no ownership inferred. Statement of Organization, soo.html
2. UPU founding corporate roles. Articles identify Brooke Stephens as incorporator; Brooke, Nichole and Lyle Mason as directors. These correct stale no-articles claims. 2021 articles, Arts4/8
3. Current-snapshot UPU / Empowered Parents director and address overlap. 2026 reports name Corinne Johnson and Korrin Dickson; address records share suite 226. Separate registrations/EINs remain. UPU report; EP report
4. UPU challenge instructions refer readers to RatedBooks and StoryLabs. Preserved 2022 page tells users to start with 4/5 and 5/5 books and links an out-of-state $35 StoryLabs offer. Referral is documented; purchase is not. UPU capture, Steps2/3
5. An EP calendar is promoted by UPU through a StoryLabs link. “Teach from your Heart … calendar by Empowered Parents Utah” with storylabs.online/educal. Cached UPU sender record dated 2023-12-21. Notification5EuDmHpdPnjbUAw64yWi
6. Specific cross-organization HB29 letter process. UCC’s post says UPU put together the letter, asked other organizations for support, and UCC signed it. This is stronger than merely sharing a signer list. Post1512,2024-03-15
7. Commercial product and nonprofit identities can be separated. StoryLabs About: “Storylabs is a product of S&S Apps, LLC.” RatedBooks has its own 2025 nonprofit articles. Named role/address overlap does not merge them. StoryLabs About; RatedBooks articles
8. National MFA announces a Utah team; Utah site names Action roles. 2024 national release names the team;2026 Utah biographies give Brooke and Ana Action titles. No subsidiary charter is established. 2024 release; Team biographies
9. Direct financial records, rather than affiliate lists. UPIA2022 entries show real receipts/expenditures; Adams PAC reports $10,000 to UPU; State of Utah record reports $135,000 to Hope. Each has a separate recipient and purpose ceiling. UPIA19 rows; Adams transaction1497229; State paymentPRC7102650000010-1111
10. Rating information reached the legislative audit. Audit 2025-28 p4: “The list we chose the books from is ratedbooks.org.” It identifies the underlying BookLooks scale and an unnamed legislator as supplier. The sender is still unknown. Audit p4 footnote6

Ten missing records that would most improve the map

1. Signed UPU–Empowered Parents affiliation/operating agreement and board resolutions. Define “partner” or “sister” in legal or operational terms; website language and shared directors do not supply those terms.
2. Complete MFA/MFA Action Schedule R returns and Utah charter/licensing or chapter agreement. Resolve legal parent/control fields, national–Utah governance, and national/Utah-team/corporation continuity.
3. RatedBooks nonprofit–S&S Apps contracts, IP assignments, service invoices and board conflict disclosures. Distinguish nonprofit activities from commercial products, domain ownership, intellectual property and payments.
4. Hope of Utah grant-recipient ledger, grant agreements, canceled payments and restricted-fund accounting. Identify the recipients of the $48,050 annual grant total and whether any state money passed to named affiliates.
5. UPU and UPIA bank/ledger support for the September 26, 2022 $1,414 entry and associated invoice or explanation. Confirm the abbreviated payer and exact purpose; a filed contribution is not proof of what it financed.
6. Empowered Parents / StoryLabs calendar distribution or licensing agreement and sales/expense records. Determine the terms of the documented calendar referral; the promotional link alone is not a transaction.
7. BookLooks–RatedBooks archive-transfer permission, licenses, dated source handoffs and production logs. Explain shared reports and actual supply history without inferring authorship or permission from identical files.
8. Original email/transmittal delivering the 186-title sample list to OLAG, with its attachment. Identify the unnamed legislator and precise list version. Ivory’s question about auditor contact is not that transmittal.
9. Amplify and Constant Contact administrator, sender, subscriber-list and access records. Distinguish app publication or shared identifiers from account control, shared mailing lists and confirmed delivery.
10. IRS/state filing histories plus board minutes for officer changes and unresolved payee identifiers. Date role exits, resolve Kimberly Fletcher and Nicole/Nichole identities, distinguish national MFA/Action payees, and determine whether Utah Parents for Education is a separate entity.

What remains unestablished

Common control; UPU ownership of RatedBooks; nonprofit ownership of S&S Apps; a legally defined UPU–EP sister relationship; national ownership of the Utah MFA corporation; Hope funding its named rating affiliates; shared subscriber lists; and a verified Utah Parents for Education entity are not established by the reviewed records. Specific conflicts, source corrections and unreviewed leads are retained in Open unresolved_questions.md.

Coverage and verification

Cataloged 142,794 files. Queried the existing two local full-text indexes read-only, recording 243,822 organization-name occurrences across 11,072 indexed paths, plus 12,653 people-name occurrences across 2,915 indexed paths. Counts include duplicated captures, long machine data and earlier notes. They do not count independent sources. The indexes were last modifiedOctober 3, 2026.

This is a source-checked map of the inspected evidence, not an exhaustive manual review of all 142,794 files. Existing OCR and transcripts were searched; unextracted/image-only records and recordings can contain missed evidence. The previousSeptember 29 packet was used to locate sources and to preserve unreviewed leads, not copied as proof. The dossier’s UPU-incorporator, PAC-inactivity and EP-President-column errors were corrected using the underlying records. No live status verification or external publishing was performed.

Organization occurrence index · People occurrence index · File catalog · Artifact hashes and metadata · Packet validation record

Packet files

• Open entity_inventory.md
• Open relationships.csv
• Open people.csv
• Open money.csv
• Open information_flow.csv
• Open artifact_matches.csv
• Open timeline.md
• Open graph.md
• Open unresolved_questions.md