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Greenpeace USA operates as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit lobby group with an annual budget of approximately $40 million. The organization employs over 500 people and relies on donations from members rather than corporate contributions.
Independent corporations first organized Greenpeace in the United States in 1975 when Greenpeace San Francisco opened its doors. Groups in Hawaii, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, Boston, Denver, and the Great Lakes region followed shortly after.
Phil Radford became executive director in 2009 at age 33 making him the youngest leader in US history. Ebony Twilley Martin became the first Black woman executive director of a national environmental organization in 2021 after her son developed asthma near a busy Maryland highway.
In 2025 a North Dakota jury ordered Greenpeace USA to pay $666.8 million in damages following protests near Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. Evidence showed the organization provided funding equipment and logistical support to activists at the protest site.
Activists set out in boats in March 2022 to intercept a 50,000 ton Greek vessel delivering Russian oil to New York. They unfurled a banner reading Oil fuels war during a 45-day grace period before sanctions were imposed.