Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Richard C Von Hess Foundation
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.
- $3.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 24
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $21M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Richard C Von Hess Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $381k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $3.4M | 31% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $2.7M | 17% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $1.9M | 42% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $890k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $1.2M | 60% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $1.1M | 56% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $1.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Louise Steinman Von Hess Foundation | $2,000,000 | 1 | 20% |
| Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | $1,073,502 | 7 | 2% |
| The Royal Oak Foundation Inc | $611,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Baltimore Museum of Art | $600,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Woodmere Art Museum | $540,000 | 3 | 3% |
| The University of the Arts | $501,478 | 5 | 0% |
| Historical Society of Pennsylvania | $500,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Peabody Essex Museum Inc | $500,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc | $470,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Frick Art & Historical Center Inc | $335,000 | 3 | 2% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Richard C Von Hess Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 Philadelphia Foundation · Lancaster County Community Foundation · The Pew Charitable Trusts · Ibm International Foundation · Thomas a and Georgina T Russo Foundation · Willis and Elsie Shenk Foundation · Quaker City Foundation · High Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · Connelly Foundation
How this is measured
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About Richard C Von Hess Foundation
- How much does Richard C Von Hess Foundation give?
- Richard C Von Hess Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $3,357,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 24 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Richard C Von Hess Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (91%), Health (3%), Education (2%).
- Who are Richard C Von Hess Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: The Louise Steinman Von Hess Foundation ($2.0M), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts ($1.1M), The Royal Oak Foundation Inc ($611k).
- Does Richard C Von Hess Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Richard C Von Hess Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Richard C Von Hess Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, Lancaster County Community Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trusts.
- Where is Richard C Von Hess Foundation based?
- Richard C Von Hess Foundation is based in PA.
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