Texas · Nonprofit
HOUSTON COMMUNITY TOOLBANK INC
HOUSTON COMMUNITY TOOLBANK INC (Texas) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,860,012 to it, the largest being THE ONESTAR FOUNDATION ($575,500). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Houston Community Toolbank Inc does
Mission
Houston toolbank is a capacity builder providing tax exempt organizations with a physical resource inventory for their programs. The organization enhances the capacity to serve, scale, and volunteer across southeast texas through tool lending, disaster relief, and hands-on tool training.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Tool training program - through our tool training program, the houston toolbank offers hands-on training that teaches the safe and effective use of hand and power tools while developing practical workforce and life skills. Through partnerships with schools, workforce development programs, and community organizations, participants gain technical knowledge, confidence, and experience through instructor-led training and project-based learning. This new program was established through a pilot program in 2023-2024 and in 2025, the organization conducted 62 training sessions serving 558 participants.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Tool lending program - through our tool lending program, the houston toolbank provides non profit organizations, schools, and community groups with affordable access to tools and equipment needed to complete mission-driven projects and volunteer activities. By eliminating the costs associated with purchasing, maintaining, and storing equipment, the program increases the capacity of charitable organizations to serve their communities. In 2025, the organization supported 2,592 unique projects with tools valued at nearly $3.1 million, equipping more than 51,000 volunteers to complete community improvement, disaster recovery, environmental stewardship, housing, and youth development projects throughout southeast texas.
$615,386 spentof which $22,268 as grants$101,600 earned by the program84% of program spendingTool training program - through our tool training program, the houston toolbank offers hands-on training that teaches the safe and effective use of hand and power tools while developing practical workforce and life skills. Through partnerships with schools, workforce development programs, and community organizations, participants gain technical knowledge, confidence, and experience through instructor-led training and project-based learning. This new program was established through a pilot program in 2023-2024 and in 2025, the organization conducted 62 training sessions serving 558 participants.
$119,564 spent$31,585 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $734,950.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $1.0M to $1.3M (+24%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 22% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of HOUSTON COMMUNITY TOOLBANK INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Marly Maskill
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $10k → $219k.
7 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 HOUSTON COMMUNITY TOOLBANK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 funders by total. 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
HOUSTON COMMUNITY TOOLBANK INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
57% 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 HOUSTON COMMUNITY TOOLBANK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 84% · 2019 37% · 2020 35% · 2021 55% · 2022 40% · 2023 58% — 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.
How long its funders stay
35% of HOUSTON COMMUNITY TOOLBANK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 32% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
64% of HOUSTON COMMUNITY TOOLBANK INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $95k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
HOUSTON COMMUNITY TOOLBANK INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HOUSTON COMMUNITY TOOLBANK INC
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Toolbank USA · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HOUSTON COMMUNITY TOOLBANK INC?
- HOUSTON COMMUNITY TOOLBANK INC (Texas) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,860,012 to it, the largest being THE ONESTAR FOUNDATION ($575,500). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOUSTON COMMUNITY TOOLBANK INC have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $1,860,012 in grants to HOUSTON COMMUNITY TOOLBANK INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOUSTON COMMUNITY TOOLBANK INC?
- THE ONESTAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $575,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOUSTON COMMUNITY TOOLBANK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 44 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