Kansas · Nonprofit
TOOLBOX INC
TOOLBOX INC (Kansas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $509,950 to it, the largest being EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION ($225,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $639k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $510k
- Net assets
- $523k
What Toolbox Inc does
Mission
The Toolbox is the go-to resource for everything small business in Wyandotte County, Kansas. We provide support with planning, registering, funding, operating, and growing your business. We take the intimidating checklist of starting and operating a business and distill it down into the essentials through private one-on-one small business coaching. All of our services are offered at no cost to local residents and businesses. Our vision is to empower the community to own their economic future.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Toolbox delivered 5 multi-week programs and 9 workshops in 2024, reaching 362 program participants and 263 workshop participants for a total of 625 individuals served. Of these, 114 participants graduated with completion certificates. Women represented 68.6% of program participants and were five times more likely to graduate than men. Topics included business basics, financial literacy, and specialized training such as QuickBooks, Excel and Construction Management.
$98,891 spentof which $5,785 as grants45% of program spendingIn 2024, The Toolbox provided 531 one-on-one meetings with entrepreneurs, primarily in construction, food service, and retail industries. These sessions focused on business planning, funding strategies, and connecting with resources. The majority of clients were women (56.8%) and 73.4% identified as Latinx/Hispanic, highlighting our role in serving underrepresented business owners. Client demographics spanned ages 18 to 74, with the largest group being 35-44 years old (45%).
$87,903 spent40% of program spendingIn 2024, The Toolbox organized and participated in 24 events, including the Kansas City, Kansas Urban E-Community networking series, the Food Business Conference, the 5th Annual Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge, and 913 Day. These events fostered collaboration among entrepreneurs, banks, and ESOs, while showcasing small business talent across Wyandotte County. Hundreds of residents engaged in these activities, helping strengthen connections and expand opportunities for local entrepreneurs.
$32,964 spent15% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $219,758.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $118k to $523k (+344%).
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: 2023 9% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of TOOLBOX INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
Gabriel Munoz
Executive Director
Board chair
Edgar Galicia
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $161k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 TOOLBOX INC’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
TOOLBOX INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% 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
53% 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 TOOLBOX INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 73% — 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
TOOLBOX INC draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
TOOLBOX INC 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 TOOLBOX 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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TOOLBOX INC?
- TOOLBOX INC (Kansas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $509,950 to it, the largest being EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION ($225,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TOOLBOX INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $509,950 in grants to TOOLBOX INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TOOLBOX INC?
- EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $225,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TOOLBOX INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 7 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