Texas · Nonprofit
BAREFOOT UNIVERSITY
BAREFOOT UNIVERSITY (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,606 to it, the largest being HOME SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE ASSOCIATION ($7,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $698k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $639k
What Barefoot University does
Mission
Barefoot University connects families to nature and each other. Our forest schools nourish the holistic health & education of children. Through child led learning, engaging stem & science based activities, community service projects, creating communities, & equipping families to observe & explore our natural world, barefooters thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Barefoot University is an outdoor meeting cooperative group, primarily for kindergarten through high school-aged children. Barefoot University promotes the health and education of each child through weekly focuses and creates communities for homeschool families. The primary goal of Barefoot University is to assist children in nurturing a love of outdoor learning. Through this, they will develop valuable skills that facilitate a self-driven knowledge of the natural world. Barefoot University groups meet once per week,outside, to conduct a nature, steam, or forest school themed activity. Barefoot University also includes enrichment field trips and community service projects. In the past, our activities have consisted of a variety of subjects including but not limited to; microscopic algae study, whittling, tree circumference and ring counting, wildflower study, native grass identification, raft and nature boat building, water flow ecology study, mushroom spore prints, geology and fossil study. Along with the activities listed above fine arts and music are also included but not limited; pottery out of native clay, musical instruments made from natural materials, cairns and rock art,…
$498,871 spentof which $58 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $498,871.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $180k to $545k (+204%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of BAREFOOT UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $7k → $606.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 BAREFOOT UNIVERSITY’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.
How concentrated its funding is
BAREFOOT UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 BAREFOOT UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
BAREFOOT UNIVERSITY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $606 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
BAREFOOT UNIVERSITY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BAREFOOT UNIVERSITY
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.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BAREFOOT UNIVERSITY: 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 BAREFOOT UNIVERSITY?
- BAREFOOT UNIVERSITY (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,606 to it, the largest being HOME SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE ASSOCIATION ($7,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BAREFOOT UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $7,606 in grants to BAREFOOT UNIVERSITY.
- Who is the largest funder of BAREFOOT UNIVERSITY?
- HOME SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BAREFOOT UNIVERSITY 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 2021–2025), 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