Greenpeace Foundation

Analysis

Greenpeace Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Kailua, HI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1978, 48 years ago. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Greenpeace Foundation reported income of $219k and spending of $2,138, leaving 99% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $151k to $219k (+45%), an average of +9.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 86%. Over the whole period it spent 1.7% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Greenpeace Foundation sits at the 54th percentile: it is larger than about 54% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile, and in the 54th percentile within HI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sound Beach Volunteer Services Foundation Inc ($219k), PTA California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students Inc ($219k) and Break Bread ($219k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 83% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.3m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.3m.