The Once Upon a Time Foundation is a $275 million private foundation based in Fort Worth, Texas. We support a wide range of organizations including those that provide arts and humanities, community affairs, health and medicine, human services, and education benefits to members of the community.
Our Programs
The Philanthropy Lab engages college students in philanthropy by giving them the tangible responsibility of directing real money to nonprofit organizations in the context of full-credit undergraduate courses. Over $13 million has been distributed to nonprofits, directed by undergraduate students
Electronic Data & Mental Health Research is comprised of grants totaling $3 million awarded to clinical teams of experts at Harvard McLean, Johns Hopkins University, and University of Pennsylvania to collaborate in parallel research studies on “The Use of Patients’ Electronic Communications in Psychiatric Evaluation and Treatment.”
Child Apraxia Treatment provides resources to both parents and clinicians on evidence-based assessment and treatment of childhood apraxia of speech, including the Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing (DTTC) treatment method. Grants totaling nearly $2 million have been awarded to study the effects of various treatment conditions, including parent training, length of therapy session, and masking, on outcome measures for children with moderate to severe childhood apraxia of speech (CAS), using Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing (DTTC), an evidence-based treatment method.
Once Upon a Time launched The Raynor Cerebellum Project in 2022 with the goal of finding the shortest path to improving the lives of patients suffering from cerebellar disorders. The cornerstone of this initiative is a $15 million commitment to establish the Raynor Cerebellum Project Lab at UT Southwestern Medical Center based in Dallas, Texas, and $30 million to fund other cutting edge Cerebellar research projects around the country and the world, along with the creation of a network of annual conferences and symposiums focused entirely on bringing together the best minds in Cerebellar research to find such projects. The Raynor Cerebellum Project will be known as the greatest collaboration of minds and resources solving the issues of cerebellar dysfunction and disorders. The Raynor Cerebellum Project is a top strategic priority for Once Upon a Time and with intent to continue to broaden our footprint in the area of Cerebellum Research.
Once Upon a Time…
is a Nonprofit 501(c)3 organization.
EIN 75-2765224