Colorado · Nonprofit
DENVER TOOL LIBRARY
DENVER TOOL LIBRARY (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,026 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($6,325). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $625k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $253k
What Denver Tool Library does
Mission
The Denver Tool Library (dtl) is a community-based, non-profit organization that provides access to a wide variety of tools, skills, and resources for home improvement, gardening, woodworking, and more. We empower individuals and communities by fostering resource sharing, skill-building, and sustainable practices
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Tool library - a cost-effective alternative to purchasing expensive tools. Provided affordable access to over 5,000 tools for over 900 members and organizations, empowering them to undertake home repairs, creative projects, and community initiatives, fostering self-reliance and promoting sustainability via resource sharing.
$122,748 spent$155,710 earned by the program31% of program spendingClasses - offered a diverse range of accessible and inclusive workshops teaching practical skills in areas like woodworking, metalworking, and home repair, building individual capacity, fostering community learning, and ensuring safe tool usage. Employed over a dozen local artists as teachers, serving over 3400 students annually.
$250,961 spent$385,946 earned by the program63% of program spendingOpen workshop - provided supervised access to the dtl's industrial-sized tools and larger workspace for trained individuals to work on personal projects, fostering skill application, community collaboration, and continued engagement with the library's resources.
$27,686 spent$34,574 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $401,395.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $156k to $261k (+68%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 3% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of DENVER TOOL LIBRARY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $450 → $6k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 DENVER 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
DENVER TOOL LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% 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
64% 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 DENVER TOOL LIBRARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 94% — diversifying over time.
“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
64% of DENVER TOOL LIBRARY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $7k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k 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
DENVER TOOL LIBRARY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DENVER 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 DENVER 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 DENVER TOOL LIBRARY?
- DENVER TOOL LIBRARY (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,026 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($6,325). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DENVER TOOL LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $20,026 in grants to DENVER TOOL LIBRARY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DENVER TOOL LIBRARY?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,325 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DENVER TOOL LIBRARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 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