Lily's Toy Box
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 830627532
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 7133440901
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public, Society Benefit N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $113,047
- Expenses
- $49,829
- Assets
- $105,859
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- JAMES DUBOSE (DIRECTOR)
- JESSICA DUBOSE (DIRECTOR)
- TRAVIS ADKINS (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Lily's toy box is a 501c3 non-profit organization that provides new toys, books and other gifts to children going through a difficult time.
What it reported doing in 2025
Lily's toy box is a 501c3 non-profit organization devoted to providing new toys, books and other gifts to children going through a difficult time. To date, lily's toy box has given over 95,000 toys to over 500 children. Each item we present is brand new toy.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 75
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 42.3%; rating input score 42
- Program expense ratio: 96%; rating input score 96
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 55.9%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.12; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.4% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 28.4% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 42.3% of revenue deployed · 96% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $48K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 42/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.