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ONCE UPON A DREAM LEARNING CENTER

ONCE UPON A DREAM LEARNING CENTER (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,986 to it, the largest being Save The Children Federation Inc ($9,986). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$483k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$10k
Net assets
$117k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Once Upon a Dream Learning Center does

Mission

Working with local schools to ensure teen parents stay in school. Offering low cost tuition to teen parents determined to succeed.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Tuition scholarships to teen parents

  2. Depreciation expense

    $3,918 spent
    100% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,918.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($465k) Expenses 100 ($421k) Net assets 100 ($49k)2018 Revenue 98 ($457k) Expenses 109 ($459k) Net assets 95 ($47k)2019 Revenue 95 ($442k) Expenses 106 ($448k) Net assets 84 ($42k)2020 Revenue 65 ($302k) Expenses 75 ($316k) Net assets 145 ($72k)2021 Revenue 108 ($502k) Expenses 107 ($450k) Net assets 249 ($123k)2022 Revenue 169 ($785k) Expenses 159 ($669k) Net assets 485 ($240k)2023 Revenue 135 ($626k) Expenses 158 ($664k) Net assets 408 ($202k)2024 Revenue 90 ($420k) Expenses 125 ($528k) Net assets 190 ($94k)2025 Revenue 104 ($483k) Expenses 109 ($461k) Net assets 236 ($117k)
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Revenue (104)Expenses (109)Net assets (236)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $123k to $240k (+95%).

$54k
$48k
$44k
$72k
$123k
$240k
$202k
$94k
$117k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of ONCE UPON A DREAM LEARNING CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$43k
’17
−$2k
’18
−$5k
’19
−$14k
’20
$51k
’21
$116k
’22
−$38k
’23
−$108k
’24
$23k
’25
1.8
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $0 → $10k.

Funder
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total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of ONCE UPON A DREAM LEARNING CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 funders by total. 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.

Where its funders are

ONCE UPON A DREAM LEARNING CENTER draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.

CT

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ONCE UPON A DREAM LEARNING CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · above the median
Months of reserve1.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like ONCE UPON A DREAM LEARNING CENTER

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In Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

1% of spending goes to programs.

Program 1%Management 99%Fundraising 0%

Governance

1
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds ONCE UPON A DREAM LEARNING CENTER?
ONCE UPON A DREAM LEARNING CENTER (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,986 to it, the largest being Save The Children Federation Inc ($9,986). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ONCE UPON A DREAM LEARNING CENTER have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $9,986 in grants to ONCE UPON A DREAM LEARNING CENTER.
Who is the largest funder of ONCE UPON A DREAM LEARNING CENTER?
Save The Children Federation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $9,986 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ONCE UPON A DREAM LEARNING CENTER find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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