Washington · Nonprofit
TACOMA TOOL LIBRARY
TACOMA TOOL LIBRARY (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,705 to it, the largest being GARNEAU NICON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $124k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $42k
What Tacoma Tool Library does
Mission
Charity
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provides low cost access to over 3,000 shared tools through 300 open hours of tool lending. 7,000+ tool loans were completed and there were 900 tool library members who used the tool library. New donations were processed and 600+ tools were catalogued into the online inventory system.
$45,200 spent100% of program spendingHosted approximately 50+ Fix It nights where 450+ community members came and had 450+ items repaired for free.
$98 spent0% of program spendingHosted 10+ Make It Sew events where 50+ community members learned how to use a sewing machine and 25+ community members worked through self-directed projects to practice their sewing skills.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $45,298.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $34k to $42k (+25%).
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.
100% of TACOMA TOOL LIBRARY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Sharayah Kinney
Executive Director
Board chair
Kyla Wilson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $16k.
From the IRS filings of TACOMA 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
TACOMA TOOL LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 54% — 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
78% of TACOMA TOOL LIBRARY's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
TACOMA TOOL LIBRARY has grown faster than half of the 1,934 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TACOMA 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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TACOMA 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 TACOMA TOOL LIBRARY?
- TACOMA TOOL LIBRARY (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,705 to it, the largest being GARNEAU NICON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TACOMA TOOL LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $39,705 in grants to TACOMA TOOL LIBRARY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TACOMA TOOL LIBRARY?
- GARNEAU NICON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TACOMA TOOL LIBRARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 4 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