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Greenpeace Fund, Inc. (c3)
702 H St NW
Suite 300
Washington, DC 20001
www.greenpeacefund.org
Phone:
(800) 326-0959
Email contact:
sarah.vito@greenpeace.org
EIN 95-3313195
Founded 1971
Exempt Since 1979
Greenpeace, Inc.
(c4)
702 H St NW
Suite 300
Washington, DC 20001
www.greenpeacefund.org
Phone:
(800) 326-0959
Email contact:
sarah.vito@greenpeace.org
EIN 52-1541501
Founded 1971
Exempt Since 1988
Description:
Anti-corporate
activist organization hijacked from its original
mission by extremists who have turned it into a shakedown group,
according to
Patrick Moore, Greenpeace co-founder. The rift in
Greenpeace may be seen in the 1985 split between the original
Greenpeace, now called
Greenpeace Foundation, and the entities it created and were
hijacked, consisting of Greenpeace, Inc., and Greenpeace Fund, Inc.,
comprising Greenpeace
USA and profiled here.
Greenpeace national and regional
offices are licensed to use the name "Greenpeace"
by Greenpeace International (Stichting Greenpeace Council)
in Brussels, Belgium
which performs central coordinating functions.
STICHTING GREENPEACE COUNCIL
Trustees from National Offices elect 7 member Stichting
Greenpeace Council
Board of Directors |
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Cornelia Durrant (Chair) |
Peter Barnes |
Aileen Micko Smith |
Judy Henderson |
Fernando Furriela |
Cornelis Otterman |
Antoni Font Gelabert |
A lead attack group in the anti-Exxon Mobil campaign:
Chris Doran,
creator of
PressurePoint, arrested in the 1999 Seattle WTO riots, headed up
the Greenpeace 2002 Campaign Exxon Mobil initiative.
Anatomy of
Greenpeace shakedowns:
- Greenpeace
activists unlawfully occupy buildings, ships in harbor, and other
private facilities to prevent others from going where they have a
right to go.
- Greenpeace
activists use their media and internet capabilities to denounce
their targets and bring pressure using opinionated claims.
- Greenpeace
activists negotiate with the target, usually a large corporation,
either directly or through a public relations agency that employs
or contracts with Greenpeace activists.
- Greenpeace
gains a position of influence within the target.
Greenpeace
tactics are covered in depth in Nick Nichols' book,
Rules for Corporate Warriors: How to Fight and Survive Attack Group
Shakedowns.
Greenpeace is
profiled in Ron Arnold and Alan Gottlieb's book,
Trashing the Economy: How Runaway Environmentalism is Wrecking
America.
Exempt since: Jan 1988
Employer ID: 52-1541501
Financial condition, 2000, Greenpeace
Fund, Inc.
[c3]
|
Revenue |
|
Expenses |
|
Contributions |
$7,490,882 |
|
Government Grants |
$0 |
|
Program Services |
$0 |
|
Investments |
$426,534 |
|
Special Events |
$0 |
|
Sales |
$0 |
|
Other |
$0 |
|
|
|
Program Services |
$8,984,276 |
|
Administration |
$347,832 |
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Other |
$1,277,995 |
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Total Expenditures |
$10,610,103 |
|
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Total Revenue |
$7,917,416 |
|
NET GAIN/LOSS |
$(2,692,687) |
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Financial condition, 2000, Greenpeace, Inc.
[c4]
|
Revenue |
|
Expenses |
|
Contributions |
$14,997,480 |
|
Government Grants |
$0 |
|
Program Services |
$0 |
|
Investments |
$33,585 |
|
Special Events |
$0 |
|
Sales |
<$156,304> |
|
Other |
$291,990 |
|
|
|
Program Services |
$10,375,661 |
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Administration |
$254,366 |
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Fundraising |
$4,522,937 |
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Total Expenditures |
$15,152,964 |
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|
Total Revenue |
$15,166,751
|
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NET GAIN/LOSS |
$(2,839,785) |
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COMBINED GREENPEACE
REVENUES (2000): $23,084,167
Board of Directors, Greenpeace Fund,
Inc.
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David Chatfield, Chairman |
Karen Topakian, Member |
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Sebia Hawkins, Member |
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Board of Directors, Greenpeace,
Inc.
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David Chatfield, Chairman |
Karen Topakian, Member |
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Sebia Hawkins, Member |
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Greenpeace is very open
about destroying free enterprise. "I don’t believe in the market
approach.... It results in treating toxics or pollution as a
commodity... When companies have a bottom line of profit you won’t
have them thinking about the environment." So said former Greenpeace
USA Executive Director Peter Bahouth in the
left-wing newspaper In These Times in April 1990.
Anti-capitalist rhetoric shouldn’t come as much of a
surprise from a group reconstituted from the 1969 Don’t Make a Wave
Committee, a bunch of American Vietnam War draft dodgers who fled to
Vancouver, British Columbia, and, with some Canadian supporters
backed by American Quaker money, tried to stop U. S. nuclear tests
on the Aleutian island of Amchitka with a halibut seiner renamed
Greenpeace. Various West Coast Quaker groups gave money,
including the Palo Alto Meeting of Friends and the Eugene Meeting of
Friends.
Canadians were worried about possible tidal waves
and earthquakes from the underground atomic blast and American
Quakers had tried to stop nuclear tests twice before by sending the
boats Phoenix and Golden Rule into test zones but were
quickly arrested and their boats seized. However, if a Canadian boat
were to sail into a test zone and stayed outside the actual
territorial limit, American authorities could do nothing about it.
The Don’t Make a Wave Committee had talented
planners and fundraisers, for all their radicalism—but the
radicalism stuck in the public’s mind. As Robert Hunter wrote in his
official history of the organization, one of the original patriarchs
of Greenpeace was former Philadelphia lawyer Irving Stowe, "a Jew
who had joined the Quaker religion" and rabid America-hater.
Stowe’s reasons for leaving America were, of course, Vietnam,
refusal to pay taxes that went into the war effort, anger over
corruption of the political system, and "creeping fascism." He
tended to let all his personal views spill out in his interviews.
His public denunciations of American imperialism and atrocities were
beginning to embarrass other members of the committee. There were
fears that he was stirring up anti-Americanism
for its own sake, not because of the specific issue of Amchitka.
In fact, Irving Stowe’s attacks on America were to leave such a
lasting impression in Vancouver that for years afterward, Greenpeace
would be viewed as a tool of Peking or the Kremlin, a reputation
that was not helped much a few years later when Stowe traveled to
China and came back singing its praises.
When early Greenpeace radical Rod Marining said,
"I’m not a Red, I’m a Green," he was not expressing tender love
toward free enterprise.
The Quaker principle to "bear witness" was not
enough for Greenpeace, which tries to make everybody bear
witness—with the Greenpeace point of view, of course. Confrontation,
civil disobedience, staged films of animal abuse, inflammatory lies
and physical harassment are Greenpeace’s methods despite its avowed
adherence to Quaker principles of non-violence. It
was for many years
entwined with the radical organization,
Earth First!, quietly sharing staff, activists and offices.
"The secret to [the late
Greenpeace co-founder] David McTaggart’s success is the secret to
Greenpeace’s success: It doesn’t matter what is true, it only
matters what people believe is true. You are what the media define
you to be. Greenpeace became a myth, and a myth-generating machine."
So said Paul Watson, one of the co-founders of
Greenpeace. That squib from a long 1991 article in Forbes
magazine gives us the aromatic top-note of what Greenpeace is all
about—perception is reality and the facts don’t matter.
Grants to Greenpeace Fund:
Foundation Name:
Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc.
Abstract: For efforts to encourage corporate demand for sustainably
managed forest products in
North America
and Europe
Amount: $50,000 Year Authorized: 2001
Foundation Name:
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Abstract: For continued support to encourage development of
philanthropy in Russia through market research, development of
fundraising strategies and dissemination of information to Russian
nongovernmental organizations
Amount: $49,000 Year Authorized: 2002
Foundation Name:
The Trust for Mutual Understanding
Abstract: For travel to Lake Baikal by Russian and American
participants in project designed to draw increased national and
international attention to environmental problems affecting the lake
and watershed
Amount: $25,000 Year Authorized: 2001
Foundation Name: Rockefeller Brothers Fund,
Inc.
Abstract: Toward efforts to support expansion of sustainable
agriculture in China
Amount: $150,000 Year Authorized: 2001
Duration: 2-year grant
Foundation Name: Reiman Charitable
Foundation, Inc.
Abstract: For general support
Amount: $50,000 Year Authorized: 2000
Foundation Name:
The Scherman Foundation, Inc.
Abstract: For general support
Amount: $80,000 Year Authorized: 2001
Duration: 2-year grant
Foundation Name:
The Overbrook Foundation
Abstract: For general support
Amount: $10,000 Year Authorized: 2000
Foundation Name: Columbia Foundation
Abstract: For True Food Consumer Action Network, San Francisco-based
pilot initiative to educate consumers about transgenic crops and
sustainable agriculture
Amount: $75,000 Year Authorized: 2001
Foundation Name:
The Capital Group Companies Charitable
Foundation
Abstract: For general support
Amount: $14,000 Year Authorized: 2001
Foundation Name:
Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc.
Abstract: For Global Warming Campaign, which raises awareness of
global warming
Amount: $75,000 Year Authorized: 2001
Foundation Name:
The
New York Community Trust
Abstract: To engage college students in global warming campaign
Amount: $50,000 Year Authorized: 2001
Foundation Name:
HKH Foundation
Abstract: For environmental protection program
Amount: $35,000 Year Authorized: 2000
Foundation Name:
The John Merck Fund
Abstract: To conduct strategically designed public education and
media campaigns that increase support for abating climate change
Amount: $30,000 Year Authorized: 2000
Foundation Name:
The Wilburforce Foundation
Abstract: For Transforming the Market: Pressure to Protect
British Columbia's Coastal Temperate Rainforest
Amount: $35,000 Year Authorized: 2000
Foundation Name:
Turner Foundation, Inc.
Abstract: For World Heritage Forests program to achieve protection
for primary forests in
Russia
Amount: $50,000 Year Authorized: 2000
Foundation Name:
Turner Foundation, Inc.
Abstract: To map old-growth forest areas in Western Russia, and
encourage paper mills to forego old-growth wood, and to provide
monitoring and testing information through Toxics Rapid Response
Laboratory for communities in Volga River Basin; for national toxics
campaign, Global Dioxin Elimination Project to develop state,
national and international support for elimination of dioxin
generating products
Amount: $150,000 Year Authorized: 1999
Foundation Name:
Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc.
Abstract: To help build European buyer pressure for sustainable
forestry practices in
British Columbia
Amount: $100,000 Year Authorized: 2000
Duration: 2-year grant
Foundation Name:
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Abstract: To increase potential of fundraising from the general
public in Russia by implementing successful Western fundraising
techniques appropriate to Russian culture and society
Amount: $100,000 Year Authorized: 2000
Foundation Name:
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation
Abstract: To conserve, sustainably manage, and independently monitor
forest resources
Amount: $300,000 Year Authorized: 2000
Duration: 3-year grant
Foundation Name: The Trust for Mutual
Understanding
Abstract: For travel and related expenses for series of seminars on
forestry issues to be held in Russia for representatives of small
regional NGOs, and to support Russian and American participation at
conference on issues of chemical pollution and ecological education
held in Volga River Basin
Amount: $40,000 Year Authorized: 2000
Foundation Name:
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Abstract: For Global Pirate Fishing Project
Amount: $450,000 Year Authorized: 2000
Foundation Name:
Wallace Global Fund
Amount: $60,000 Year Authorized: 1999
Foundation Name:
Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation, Inc.
Amount: $10,000 Year Authorized: 1998
Foundation Name:
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Abstract: For project, Double Standards in the Oil Production
Industry of
Russia
Amount: $50,000 Year Authorized: 1999
Foundation Name:
The Trust for Mutual Understanding
Abstract: For international travel by Russian and American
environmental specialists participating in workshops held in
connection with Greenpeace 's Russian Ecological Hotspots project
Amount: $50,000 Year Authorized: 1998
Foundation Name: Turner Foundation, Inc.
Amount: $60,000 Year Authorized: 1998
Foundation Name: W. Alton Jones Foundation, Inc.
Abstract: To form committee of scientists to analyze COGEMA's
(nuclear processing company) petition for new permit to discharge
radioactive and toxic wastes into sea and air from La Hague and to
publish peer-reviewable critique before French government decides
whether or not to issue a new permit
Amount: $120,000 Year Authorized: 1998
Foundation Name: Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation
Abstract: For Solar Mediterranean Project
Amount: $50,000 Year Authorized: 1998
Foundation Name:
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Abstract: To encourage development of philanthropy in Russia through
market research, development of fundraising strategies and
dissemination of information to Russian nongovernmental
organizations (NGOs)
Amount: $100,000 Year Authorized: 1999
Foundation Name:
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Abstract: To identify and map large old-growth forests in European
Russia and Ural
Mountains
Amount: $90,066 Year Authorized: 1998
Duration: 1 1/2-year grant
Foundation Name:
Turner Foundation, Inc.
Amount: $40,000 Year Authorized: 1997
Foundation Name: Lannan Foundation
Amount: $100,000 Year Authorized: 1996
Foundation Name: Turner Foundation, Inc.
Amount: $40,000 Year Authorized: 1996
Foundation Name:
The Joyce Foundation
Abstract: For continued support to encourage transition to
non-chemical drycleaning
Amount: $120,000 Year Authorized: 1997
Duration: 2-year grant
Foundation Name: The Rockefeller Foundation
Abstract: Toward
Oxford Solar
Investment Summit
Amount: $20,000 Year Authorized: 1996
Foundation Name: HKH Foundation
Amount: $15,000 Year Authorized: 1995
Foundation Name:
The Joyce Foundation
Abstract: To encourage transition to new drycleaning process that
does not rely on toxic chemicals and to develop similar projects in
other industries
Amount: $60,000 Year Authorized: 1996
Foundation Name: Wallace Genetic Foundation,
Inc.
Amount: $15,000 Year Authorized: 1995
Foundation Name:
Lannan Foundation
Abstract: For unrestricted support
Amount: $100,000 Year Authorized: 1995
Foundation Name:
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Abstract: Toward The Solar Century, project to encourage corporate
investments in solar energy as alternative to fossil fuel use
Amount: $30,000 Year Authorized: 1997
Foundation Name:
Town Creek Foundation, Inc.
Amount: $10,000 Year Authorized: 1993
Foundation Name:
Public Welfare Foundation, Inc.
Abstract: For Women, Health and the Environment project helping to
define public health as environmental issue. Project's initial focus
is on epidemic proportions of breast cancer in industrialized world
Amount: $75,000 Year Authorized: 1994
Foundation Name:
The Joyce Foundation
Abstract: To explore commercial potential of non-chemical dry
cleaning
Amount: $20,000 Year Authorized: 1993
Foundation Name:
Foundation for Deep Ecology
Abstract: For native anti-nuclear activities
Amount: $15,000 Year Authorized: 1992
Foundation Name:
The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation,
Inc.
Amount: $10,000 Year Authorized: 1989
Foundation Name:
Town Creek Foundation, Inc.
Amount: $10,000 Year Authorized: 1990
Foundation Name: Town Creek Foundation, Inc.
Amount: $10,000 Year Authorized: 1988
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