Oregon · Nonprofit
TOOLBOX PROJECT
TOOLBOX PROJECT (Oregon) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,262 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($15,171). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $50k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $22k
- Net assets
- $69k
What Toolbox Project does
Mission
Tool Lending Library- nearly 1,000 members borrowed tools in 2025. Volunteers ensure tools are in good repair and ready to use. Borrowers are maintaining and improving their homes and yards with our tools, plus working on their cars and bikes. At our mobile repair events, over a hundred community members benefited from repairs to their personal items, including tools, kitchen appliances, household lights, fans, sewing machines and electronic gear, textiles, bicycles, etc. Volunteers did these repairs during one-day events around our metro area that drew crowds.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Nearly 1000 members borrowed over 1,000 of our 1,600 tools over the year. We've recorded over 6,000 loans to those members. Some of those tools have been borrowed 50 or more times. Our volunteers ensure the tools are in good repair and ready to use, between borrowers. About a third of those member borrowers are new users of our service. Borrowers are maintaining and improving their homes and yards with our tools, plus working on their cars and bikes.
$42,817 spent88% of program spendingScores of community members benefitted from repairs to their personal items over the year, including manual and power tools, kitchen tools & appliances, household lights, fans, sewing machines and electronic gear, textiles -- garments, outdoor gear -- and bicycles & skateboards. Volunteers did these repairs during one-day events around our metropolitan area that drew crowds. We partnered with other community organizations including youth workforce readiness programs to share the principles of repair and re-use.
$5,586 spent12% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $48,403.
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 $76k to $69k (−9%).
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.
51% of TOOLBOX PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $26 → $9k.
3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 PROJECT’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 PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 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
100% of TOOLBOX PROJECT'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
TOOLBOX PROJECT's revenue fell 41% between 2023 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,277 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding TOOLBOX PROJECT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $31k on record.
- AGENCY PROGRAM RELATED SERVICES$31k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like TOOLBOX PROJECT
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TOOLBOX PROJECT: 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 TOOLBOX PROJECT?
- TOOLBOX PROJECT (Oregon) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,262 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($15,171). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TOOLBOX PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $22,262 in grants to TOOLBOX PROJECT, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TOOLBOX PROJECT?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $15,171 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TOOLBOX PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 3 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