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TOOL LIBRARY INC

EIN 82-3550585 BUFFALO, NY

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Revenue 2023
$240,805
Expenses 2023
$144,713

Program services were 83.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S20
Classification
1000
Street
2626 MAIN ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

The Tool Library, Inc. promotes borrowing over buying by increasing trust between neighbors and neighborhoods through empowerment by removing economic barriers for individuals and community projects, enhances sustainability by encouraging community involvement to share practical resources and knowledge, reduces waste, and lowers barriers to access.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To provide communities with the tools they need to create the change they want

  • 1,421 active members borrowed 4,874 tools in 19,478 transactions for 2023. These borrowed tools provided $730,889 in savings to our community and contributed to our charitable purpose of combating neighborhood blight by providing tools, equipment and resources to the community.

    Expenses $101,754 · Revenue $9,620

  • Service Days - 12 events in 2023 brought together 373 volunteers and a total of 1,122 volunteer hours. As a whole 4,100 bulbs and 57 trees were planted. These community beautification efforts contribute to our efforts of combating neighborhood blight.

    Expenses $12,719

  • Dare to Repair - 11 events in 2023 had 482 participants who were aided by 52 volunteers to work on 379 items which otherwise would have become waste. There were 274 successful fixes and 2,667lbs of waste was diverted from landfills. Hosting repair events supports sustainability efforts.

    Expenses $6,212 · Revenue $1,500

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Darren Cotton

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $32,000
    From this org
    $32,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Dylan Steed

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Eric Borenstein

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Cheyenne Ketter-Franklin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rob Townsley

    SecretarySecretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Barbara Cross

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Jenna Curran

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dylan Burns

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Barbara Bono

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dave Harter

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Kamal Patel

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Melanie Rushforth

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kellyn Torres

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Drew Canfield

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Antionette McClainMcClain

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Laura Alexander

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael McManus

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Shannon Johnson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lauren Turner

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $240,805
    Expenses
    $144,713
    Contributions
    $222,472
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $115,219
    Expenses
    $86,847
    Contributions
    $77,919
    Grants paid
    not reported

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $181,550
    Expenses
    $70,633
    Assets (EOY)
    $239,886

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $76,033
    Expenses
    $53,646
    Assets (EOY)
    $118,262

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2019

Tax period
1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019
Principal officer
Darren Cotten
Mailing address
5 West NorthrupBuffalo NY 14214

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.