· Private foundation
Wendell and Marsha Yim 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
62% of Wendell and Marsha Yim Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to University Of Notre Dame Du Lac, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Wendell and Marsha Yim Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $4k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $1,000 |
| DAMIEN MEMORIAL SCHOOL | $500 |
| SACRED HEARTS ACADEMY | $500 |
| KAKO O OIWI | $500 |
| I'M A BRIGHT KID FOUNDATION | $300 |
| ARC IN HAWAII | $250 |
| PAEPAE O HEEIA | $250 |
| KUMU KAHUA THEATER | $200 |
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 (FY17–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WSWAIKIKI SURF CLUB2× · 2024–2025 · $4k · revenue +126%
- KOKAKOO OIWI4× · 2022–2025 · $2k · revenue +30%
KUMU KAHUA THEATRE INC4× · 2020–2025 · $1k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $1k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $800
- UOUNIVE OF NOTRE DAMEone grant, 2017 · $500
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.
to rehabilitate, curate, and steward the natural and cultural resources of Kawa to honor the past, benefit the present, and preserve for the future generations of Ka'u, the Island of Hawaii and all humankind.
raise scholarship funds for nontraditional students on the Waianae Coast.
Design, construction, sailing, and maintenance of traditional Hawaiian double-hulled sailing canoes. The Oranization also provides education to the public regarding traditional Hawaiian canoes.
Preserve niihau cultural values and language.
Operating exclusively for charitable, educational, scientific, and literary purposes, the organization preserves and advances Native Hawaiian culture through education, leadership, and STREAMY integration: Sciences, Technologies, Reading,…
Kahea is a community-based organization working to improve the quality of life for hawai`i's people and future generations through the revitalization and protection of hawai`i's unique natural and cultural resources. kahea advocates for…
Papahana kuaola's mission is to create quality educational programs focused on environmental restoration and economic sustainability fully integrated with hawaiian knowledge in order to exemplify a lifestyle respectful of kanaka, `aina,…
Our mission is to protect, perpetuate, and enhance: the intrinsic qualities of the lower puna area, native hawaiian wellbeing, and the transmission of intergenerational knowledge and practices in partnership with county, state, government,…
The mission of the Keauhou Canoe Club is to educate our youth, our membership, and the community at large about Hawaiian culture, values, and traditions and to promote competitive and recreational outrigger canoe paddling and other water…
To support education primarily in the Waianae community on the island of Oahu. Support may included, but not be limited to, professional development, student support services, and community engagement. As educators on the Waianae coast,…
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 26 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 University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds Windward O'ahu AAUW Scholarship Fund Windward O'ahu AAUW Scholarship Fund ↗
- Who funds WAIKIKI SURF CLUB ↗
- Who funds KAKOO OIWI ↗
- Who funds KUMU KAHUA THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PAEPAE O HE'EIA ↗
- Who funds IMABRIGHTKID FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARC IN HAWAII ↗
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: Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Aloha United Way Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wendell and Marsha Yim Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wendell and Marsha Yim Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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