North Carolina · Nonprofit
ASHEVILLE TOOL LIBRARY
ASHEVILLE TOOL LIBRARY (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,028 to it, the largest being ALLIANCE FOR GREEN HEAT ($20,021). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $167k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $41k
- Net assets
- $246k
What Asheville Tool Library does
Mission
Our mission is to provide low-cost access to a wide range of tools, literature, and knowledge to the citizens of Western North Carolina.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
At the end of 2024 we have over 1000 current members who may check out tools from our extensive inventory with no fee above the yearly membership which is based on an honor system sliding scale of $50 to $250. We provided 136 full scholarships in 2024 valued at $150 each, the average membership fee. We offered classes and workshops on a variety of DIY topics in 2024 and next year will be developing new programs services to expand our capacity for the educational part of our mission. We are a volunteer run organization with a single part time employee so most of our expenses are program expenses. In 2024 there were some unusual program expenses related to disaster relief.
$100,081 spentof which $15,085 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $100,081.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $176k to $259k (+47%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
40% of ASHEVILLE TOOL LIBRARY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Keenan Phillips
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $74.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ASHEVILLE TOOL LIBRARY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ASHEVILLE TOOL LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ASHEVILLE TOOL LIBRARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
ASHEVILLE TOOL LIBRARY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ASHEVILLE TOOL LIBRARY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ASHEVILLE TOOL LIBRARY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASHEVILLE TOOL LIBRARY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASHEVILLE TOOL LIBRARY?
- ASHEVILLE TOOL LIBRARY (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,028 to it, the largest being ALLIANCE FOR GREEN HEAT ($20,021). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASHEVILLE TOOL LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $41,028 in grants to ASHEVILLE TOOL LIBRARY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASHEVILLE TOOL LIBRARY?
- ALLIANCE FOR GREEN HEAT is the largest funder on record, with $20,021 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASHEVILLE TOOL LIBRARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing