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ONCE UPON A ROOM INC

ONCE UPON A ROOM INC (California) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $694,952 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($115,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$547k
Funders on record
42
Grants received
$695k
Net assets
$425k
18/42 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 38%
01What it does

What Once Upon a Room Inc does

Mission

To enrich the lives of hospitalized children, teens and infants who are fighting serious illnesses and long term acute trauma.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. We have provided personalized hospital room makeovers, in-hospital and outpatient visits to promote happiness and healing in the lives of critically ill and extended stay pediatric patients. Our work has impacted the lives of many children as well as their families.

  2. We have provided personalized hospital room makeovers, in-hospital and outpatient visits to promote happiness and healing in the lives of critically ill and extended stay pediatric patients. Our work has impacted the lives of many children as well as their families.

    $376,403 spent
    100% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $376,403.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($199k) Expenses 100 ($146k) Net assets 100 ($85k)2022 Revenue 217 ($432k) Expenses 251 ($366k) Net assets 152 ($129k)2023 Revenue 311 ($620k) Expenses 284 ($413k) Net assets 388 ($329k)2024 Revenue 275 ($547k) Expenses 298 ($435k) Net assets 502 ($425k)
2021202220232024
Revenue (275)Expenses (298)Net assets (502)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 2022 to 2023, from $129k to $329k (+155%).

$85k
$129k
$329k
$425k
2021202220232024
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of ONCE UPON A ROOM INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,418 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$53k
’21
$66k
’22
$207k
’23
$112k
’24
12
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.

202220232024
Listed666
Joined·+0+0
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 19 funders, grant income rose $1k → $173k.

9 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of ONCE UPON A ROOM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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.

How concentrated its funding is

ONCE UPON A ROOM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

63% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ONCE UPON A ROOM INC.

17%
largest funder
42%
top three
~12
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 48% · 2019 37% · 2020 52% · 2021 46% · 2022 30% · 2023 17% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.

How long its funders stay

33% of ONCE UPON A ROOM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

55% of ONCE UPON A ROOM INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $311k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside California, across 13 states.

WI
MI
NY
NV
WY
CA
CO
AZ
TN
LA
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $384k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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 ROOM INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,705 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · top quartile
Months of reserve11.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)40% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,705 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like ONCE UPON A ROOM INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 0%Fundraising 3%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 8 states

MN
MI
OR
CA
CO
AZ
AL
GA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ONCE UPON A ROOM INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ONCE UPON A ROOM INC?
ONCE UPON A ROOM INC (California) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $694,952 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($115,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ONCE UPON A ROOM INC have?
IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $694,952 in grants to ONCE UPON A ROOM INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ONCE UPON A ROOM INC?
ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $115,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ONCE UPON A ROOM INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 42 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing