The Richard C Von Hess Foundation 0262-02-40

What they fund

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

• Louise Steinman Von Hess Foundation1 grant · $2.0M
• The Royal Oak Foundation2 grants · $561,000
• The Baltimore Museum of Art1 grant · $500,000
• Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts5 grants · $346,300
• Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts1 grant · $314,600
• Woodmere Art Museum2 grants · $290,000
• Historical Society of Pennsylvania3 grants · $275,000
• Maryland Center for History and Culture2 grants · $250,000
• Woodmere Art Museum1 grant · $250,000
• The Von Hess Foundation1 grant · $237,500

Giving over time

Grant history

All 75 reported grants, largest first.

• $2.0M

  Louise Steinman Von Hess Foundation · Columbia, PA · 2025

  Support transformation of the adjacent railroad building into a visitor's center, museum and library annex

• $500,000

  The Baltimore Museum of Art · Baltimore, MD · 2024

  Jacobs wing

• $314,600

  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts · Philadelphia, PA · 2025

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• $280,500

  The Royal Oak Foundation · New York, NY · 2024

  Restoration of entryway to

• $280,500

  The Royal Oak Foundation · New York, NY · 2023

  Restoration of entryway to

• $250,000

  Woodmere Art Museum · Philadelphia, PA · 2025

  Support the establishment and to secure naming rights for frances m. Maguire hall

• $250,000

  Woodmere Art Museum · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

  Secure naming rights

• $237,500

  The Von Hess Foundation · Columbia, PA · 2023

  Purchase of florine

• $200,000

  Western Pennsylvania Conservancy · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025

  Support the preservation of the unesco world heritage site fallingwater

• $200,000

  The Frick Art & Historical Center · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024

  Support vermeer monet

• $150,000

  Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum · Boston, MA · 2025

  Support the book of esther in the age of rembrandt exhibition

• $150,000

  Rubicon Productions · Sparks Glencoe, MD · 2024

  Creation of a documentary

• $125,000

  Historical Society of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2025

  Support renovations of hsp's conservation services laboratory

• $125,000

  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

  Pafa's historic landmark

• $125,000

  Maryland Center for History and Culture · Baltimore, MD · 2023

  New facility for visiting

• $125,000

  Maryland Center for History and Culture · Baltimore, MD · 2022

  New facility for visiting

• $122,130

  Oak Spring Garden Foundation · Upperville, VA · 2024

  Conservation of the

• $108,280

  The University of the Arts · Philadelphia, PA · 2023

  Scholarship, internships,

• $100,000

  Peabody Essex Museum · Salem, MA · 2025

  Support the saints, sinners, lovers and fools: 300 years of flemish masterworks exhibition

• $100,000

  Museum of the American Revolution · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

  The declaration's journey

• $100,000

  Peabody Essex Museum · Salem, MA · 2024

  Support the saints,

• $100,000

  Hillwood Estate Museum and Gardens · Washington, DC · 2023

  Support for grace of monaco

• $100,000

  Historical Society of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2023

  Support interior renovation

• $100,000

  University of Iowa Center for · Iowa City, IA · 2023

  Stanley museum's

• $100,000

  Historical Society of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2022

  Support interior renovation

• $97,950

  The University of the Arts · Philadelphia, PA · 2022

  Scholarship, internships,

• $78,000

  The National Society of the Colonial · Washington, DC · 2023

  Restoration of the historic

• $76,400

  Demuth Foundation · Lancaster, PA · 2024

  Foundation reinterpretation

• $75,000

  Historical Society of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

  Support 200th anniversary

• $75,000

  Museum of Fine Arts Boston · Boston, MA · 2024

  2025 exhibition van gogh

• $75,000

  The Barnes Foundation · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

  Creation of exhibition

• $75,000

  Carnegie Museum of Art · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023

  Support publication of a

• $75,000

  The Barnes Foundation · Philadelphia, PA · 2023

  Creation of exhibition

• $75,000

  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts · Philadelphia, PA · 2022

  Making american artists

• $70,000

  Ladew Topiary Gardens · Monkton, MD · 2023

  Restoration of the library

• $70,000

  Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum · Boston, MA · 2022

  Manet's madame auguste

• $70,000

  Ladew Topiary Gardens · Monkton, MD · 2022

  Restoration of the library

• $62,500

  The Phillips Collection · Washington, DC · 2024

  Bonnard's worlds exhibition

• $62,500

  Walters Art Museum Foundation · Baltimore, MD · 2024

  Ethiopia at the crossroads

• $62,500

  The Phillips Collection · Washington, DC · 2023

  Bonnard's worlds exhibition

• $62,500

  Walters Art Museum Foundation · Baltimore, MD · 2023

  Ethiopia at the crossroads

• $60,000

  Delaware Art Museum · Wilmington, DE · 2025

  Renovation of galleries 15 & 16

• $60,000

  Rock Ford Foundation · Lancaster, PA · 2022

  Long rifles of the american

• $58,440

  James a Michener Art Museum · Doylestown, PA · 2023

  To support the fall/winter

• $55,275

  Independence Seaport Museum · Philadelphia, PA · 2022

  Showcase the museum's

• $55,272

  Independence Seaport Museum · Philadelphia, PA · 2023

  Showcase the museum's

• $55,000

  Delaware Art Museum · Wilmington, DE · 2024

  Jazz age illustration

• $55,000

  James a Michener Art Museum · Doylestown, PA · 2024

  Interwoven exhibition

• $55,000

  Westmoreland Museum of American Art · Greensburg, PA · 2024

  Support for 65 artists, 65

• $55,000

  Westmoreland Museum of American Art · Greensburg, PA · 2022

  Gatecrashers: the rise of

• $52,150

  Demuth Foundation · Lancaster, PA · 2025

  Support three year strategic plan

• $50,000

  Hillwood Estate Museum & Gardens · Washington, DC · 2025

  Support the setting sail: the story of sea cloud exhibition

• $50,000

  Hillwood Estate Museum and Gardens · Washington, DC · 2024

  The story of sea cloud

• $50,000

  Lancasterhistory · Lancaster, PA · 2024

  Thaddeus stevens' law

• $50,000

  Lancasterhistory · Lancaster, PA · 2023

  Restoration of thaddeus

• $49,600

  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

  Memorial scholarship &

• $49,600

  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts · Philadelphia, PA · 2023

  Memorial scholarship &

• $47,100

  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts · Philadelphia, PA · 2022

  Memorial scholarship &

• $46,000

  Delaware Art Museum · Wilmington, DE · 2023

  Conservation efforts for

• $45,000

  Carpenters Company of the City and · Philadelphia, PA · 2023

  300th anniversary

• $45,000

  Carpenters Company of the City and · Philadelphia, PA · 2022

  300th anniversary

• $40,000

  Woodmere Art Museum · Philadelphia, PA · 2022

  The art of american social

• $37,000

  The National Society of the Colonial · Washington, DC · 2024

  American treasures:

• $34,000

  Victoria Mansion · Portland, ME · 2024

  Bold, designing fellows

• $30,000

  Landis Valley Associates · Lancaster, PA · 2025

  Support the gunsmiths of the early republic: lancaster's legacy in american firearms exhibition

• $30,000

  Landis Valley Associates · Lancaster, PA · 2023

  To support a web site &

• $25,000

  Friends of the Maryland State Archives · Annapolis, MD · 2025

  Support the publication of finding the maryland 400

• $25,000

  Christ Church Preservation Trust · Philadelphia, PA · 2023

  Installation of an

• $25,000

  National Society of the Colonial Dames · Philadelphia, PA · 2023

  Stenton collections

• $25,000

  Hudson Opera House · Hudson, NY · 2022

  Interior restoration of

• $25,000

  National Society of the Colonial Dames · Philadelphia, PA · 2022

  Stenton collections

• $20,000

  Independence Seaport Museum · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

  Commemorate the nation's

• $20,000

  Museum of the American Revolution · Philadelphia, PA · 2023

  Black founders forten

• $18,735

  Huntington Museum of Art · Huntington, WV · 2023

  Exhibition of prints and

• $1,000

  Longwood Gardens · Kennet Square, PA · 2025

  Memorial donation - gary hufford

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