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THE LOUISE STEINMAN VON HESS FOUNDATION

THE LOUISE STEINMAN VON HESS FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,000,000 to it, the largest being RICHARD C VON HESS FOUNDATION ($2,000,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$10M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$2.0M
Net assets
$48M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What The Louise Steinman Von Hess Foundation does

Program

  1. The von hess foundation is a foundation that has authentically restored and furnished a house museum known as wright's ferry mansion. Built in 1738 by susanna wright, all furnishings and decorative arts in the collection predate 1750. It is the only pennsylvania house furnished exclusively to the first half of the 18th century. The house museum is located in columbia, pennsylvania and is open to the public.

    $396,752 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($1.0M) Expenses 100 ($336k) Net assets 100 ($35M)2021 Revenue 189 ($1.9M) Expenses 117 ($394k) Net assets 113 ($40M)2022 Revenue 97 ($992k) Expenses 409 ($1.4M) Net assets 96 ($34M)2023 Revenue 167 ($1.7M) Expenses 243 ($816k) Net assets 108 ($38M)2024 Revenue 147 ($1.5M) Expenses 289 ($970k) Net assets 114 ($40M)2025 Revenue 989 ($10M) Expenses 349 ($1.2M) Net assets 138 ($48M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (989)Expenses (349)Net assets (138)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $40M to $49M (+22%).

$35M
$40M
$34M
$38M
$40M
$49M
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

Board chair

Thomas Hills Cook

Chairman of

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

202020212022202320242025
Listed355455
Joined·+2+1+0+1+0
No longer listed·01100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'25*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of THE LOUISE STEINMAN VON HESS FOUNDATION’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.

Where its funders are

100% of THE LOUISE STEINMAN VON HESS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE LOUISE STEINMAN VON HESS FOUNDATION?
THE LOUISE STEINMAN VON HESS FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,000,000 to it, the largest being RICHARD C VON HESS FOUNDATION ($2,000,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE LOUISE STEINMAN VON HESS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,000,000 in grants to THE LOUISE STEINMAN VON HESS FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of THE LOUISE STEINMAN VON HESS FOUNDATION?
RICHARD C VON HESS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE LOUISE STEINMAN VON HESS FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 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