Greenpeace Foundation is an environmental organization based in Hawaii. It was officially founded in 1976 as an independent offshoot of the Canadian Greenpeace Foundation and is the oldest 'Greenpeace' in the United States. When the original Vancouver-based Greenpeace Foundation agreed in 1979 to be represented in Greenpeace International the Hawaii-based Greenpeace Foundation joined them, but a schism in 1985 over wildlife campaign goals and fundraising ethics caused Greeneace Foundation to withdraw, and it remains an unaffiliated organisation doing business nationally and internationally.^[1][2]

According to Greenpeace Foundation's 1979-2023 leader, DJ White, the Hawaii group bought and fielded the world's first fully-owned anti-whaling ship, created and conducted the international dolphin-saving campaign, created and coordinated the worldwide "driftnet" and "dolphin deadly tuna" campaigns, as well as bringing the ship Rainbow Warrior into the Pacific in 1983, for whale, dolphin, and other campaigns. It has impacted public education, influenced legislation without lobbying, and was active on press public relations, yet paid its members "virtually nothing in the way of salaries". Cut off from the large-scale fundraising of the Greenpeace 'empire' which controls all other 'greenpeace' entities, the organization seeks to represent the original values of the Greenpeace movement. ^[3]