Toolbox Project

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
472273830
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Eugene, OR, USA
Phone
5418380125
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public, Society Benefit N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$49,979
Expenses
$54,195
Assets
$69,449
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Steve Bade (President)

People named in this filing

  • Steve Bade (President)
  • Daniel Mundra (Secretary)
  • Paul Wilson (Treasurer)

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

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.

What it reported doing in 2025

Scores 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.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 94
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 44
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 96.9%; rating input score 97
  • Program expense ratio: 89.3%; rating input score 89

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -8.4%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.28; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -16.5% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -26.5% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2.3% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 96.9% of revenue deployed · 89.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $48K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.