· Private foundation
Rita Mallett Blasser Foundationinc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOTSTEPS | $70,000 |
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| TEA FUND | $20,000 |
| DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON | $10,000 |
| ENSEMBLE THEATRE | $10,000 |
| HOUSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY | $10,000 |
| INPRINT INC | $10,000 |
| MILDRED'S UMBRELLA THEATER COMPANY | $10,000 |
| LILITH FUND | $5,000 |
| JANE'S DUE PROCESS | $5,000 |
| COBALT FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FUND TEXAS CHOICE | $5,000 |
| EAST TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FIFOOTSTEPS INC2× · 2023–2025 · $100k · revenue +20%
- NNNational Network of Abortion Funds3× · 2023–2025 · $45k · revenue +17%
- HYHOUSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- TATEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY-COMMERCE FOUNDone grant, 2023 · $5k
- WIWriters in the Schoolsone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Women's Health and Family Planning Association of Texas ("WHFPT") is dedicated to the belief that all Texans deserve the right to determine the number, timing, and spacing of their children through access to affordable, confidential,…
Texas pregnancy care network is committed to assisting pregnant women and their families in need of compassionate, practical and life affirming alternatives to abortion.
Clinic Access Support Network (CASN) provides transportation, accommodations, childcare assistance, and compassionate care to Houstonians seeking abortion services. During this year, the organization paused coordination of direct services.
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.
Houston coalition for life aims to end abortion in houston, peacefully and prayerfully.
The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…
Austin Rainbow Theatre provides affordable theatre that focuses on creating belonging, reducing stigma, honoring diverse LGBTQIA+ history and stories, and amplifying LGBTQIA+ artist and community voices.
Frontera fund is dedicated to advancing reproductive justice values and access to reproductive health in the rio grande valley and border communities in texas by providing comprehensive direct services, including abortion funding and…
Harmonia Stellarum is an ensemble of professional vocalists and instrumentalists specialized in historically informed performance practice who seek to inspire, entertain, and enlighten audiences with meaningful, historically informed…
Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Family Planning and Preventative Health provides comprehensive and complementary health care services in settings that preserve and protect the essential privacy and rights of the individual, advocates…
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FOOTSTEPS INC ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds National Network of Abortion Funds ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds THE ENSEMBLE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds INPRINT INC ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds MILDREDS UMBRELLA THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds FUND TEXAS CHOICE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND ↗
- Who funds COBALT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Writers in the Schools ↗
- Who funds JANE'S DUE PROCESS INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Powell Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rita Mallett Blasser Foundationinc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rita Mallett Blasser Foundationinc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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