Texas · Nonprofit
ONCE UPON A TIME FOUNDATION
ONCE UPON A TIME FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being UCLA FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $277M
What Once Upon a Time Foundation does
Programs
Rcp external summits/meetingsthe raynor cerebellum project convenes in person several times annually to present updated findings from foundation-funded projects, strategize next steps for ongoing research studies, and explore potential directions for future investigations.
$887,476 spentPhil lab ambassadors conferencethe philanthropy lab ambassadors conference provides former philanthropy lab students with an opportunity to advance their philanthropic engagement by building upon the knowledge and skills acquired in class. Participants learn from expert panelists and seasoned philanthropy professionals, present pitches for additional funding to one of the class's selected grantees and engage in deliberations with fellow ambassadors on the advisory board to determine the allocation of $200,000 in grants. The conference offers valuable, real-world experience serving as a board member for a charitable foundationan accomplishment that can be prominently featured on professional resumes.
$172,335 spentPhil lab leadership summitthe philanthropy lab leadership summit brings together all philanthropy lab professors to review the year's courses, discuss potential program enhancements, and collaborate with colleagues to expand student opportunities for meaningful philanthropic engagement at the partner universities and beyond.
$61,132 spentCas quarterly meetingsthe childhood apraxia of speech research team convenes in person two to three times annually to present updated findings from foundation-funded projects, strategize next steps for ongoing research studies, and explore potential directions for future investigations.
$31,956 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $193M to $247M (+28%).
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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 TIME FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
100% of ONCE UPON A TIME FOUNDATION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
ONCE UPON A TIME FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ONCE UPON A TIME FOUNDATION
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ONCE UPON A TIME FOUNDATION: 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 TIME FOUNDATION?
- ONCE UPON A TIME FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being UCLA FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ONCE UPON A TIME FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,000 in grants to ONCE UPON A TIME FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of ONCE UPON A TIME FOUNDATION?
- UCLA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ONCE UPON A TIME FOUNDATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 1 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