Thirteen Decembers, counted by hand.
The work, told in numbers.
What it took to deliver nearly 40,000 toys in 2025 — and the nine-county network that does it again every December.
One concentrated season, carried by a whole region.
new toys collected in the 2025 drive
Bay Area counties served on Toy Day
partners running their own drives
Decembers, still 100% volunteer-run
One warehouse. Nearly 40,000 toys.
Collection ran November 1 through December 18. Every toy was sorted and counted at our San Jose warehouse, then handed to partner nonprofits, schools, and faith communities in the last week of December.
The 2025 drive collected nearly 40,000 new toys — about a third more than the year before.
The drive, one year at a time.
Pick a year to see what that season looked like. The figures here are the ones we’ve confirmed — no estimates, no rounding up.
New toys collected
Partners
Counties served
Earlier years and more detailed metrics will appear here as we confirm them. We’d rather show a few numbers we trust than a lot we can’t.
The drive travels further than it delivers.
Volunteers have carried the drive to communities beyond the Bay Area and sent every toy back to San Jose. Those collections widen where the toys come from. They don’t change where the toys go: still the nine Bay Area counties, still handed to a local child.
~400
Toys collected in Monterey
Led by Chris Ferris, who brought the drive to Monterey and returned every toy to the Bay Area warehouse.
~1,000
Toys collected in Santa Barbara
Brought to Santa Barbara by a student ambassador, with every toy returned to the Bay Area warehouse.
Nine counties, lit one at a time.
From Sonoma in the north to Monterey in the south, the coast to the East Bay. Toys collected across the San Francisco Bay Area return to San Jose, then go back out — each county a light that comes on when the toys arrive.
- Santa Clara
- San Mateo
- Alameda
- Contra Costa
- San Francisco
- Marin
- Sonoma
- Monterey
- Santa Cruz
How a volunteer team moves nearly 40,000 toys every December.
Three things make it possible. Not one of them is us, working alone.
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Paid staff
Joey's Toy Drive has no paid employees. Every role — directors, logistics, transportation, communications — runs on volunteer time, on top of regular jobs and schoolwork.
Donated
Trucks & warehouse
Silicon Valley Moving & Storage donates trucks, warehouse space, and freight handling to the drive every year. Without that, a volunteer team couldn't deliver at this scale.
9 counties
One warehouse out
Toys move from about 120 partner collection points through one San Jose warehouse, then out to partner nonprofits, schools, and faith communities across nine counties.
There’s a place for you in the next one.
The 2026 drive opens November 1. Every toy in that warehouse started with one person deciding it was worth a trip to the store.