Patagonia POLITICAL

Corporate Communications & Public Stance

• Patagonia’s September 2022 ownership announcement states that its founders transferred ownership to the Patagonia Purpose Trust and the Holdfast Collective, framing the arrangement around directing wealth toward environmental protection.¹

• Patagonia’s 2023–2024 Benefit Corporation Report identifies Patagonia Works as the company group and identifies the Holdfast, Chalten, Sojourner, Wilder and Tail Wind Trusts as constituent trusts of the Holdfast Collective.²

• Patagonia’s 2025 Impact Report states that Patagonia’s purpose is embedded in its legal charter and ownership/governance structure.³

• Patagonia’s current funding disclosure states that the company has funded grassroots environmental organisations since 1985, pledged 1% of sales in 1996, and continues to give 1% of sales; it describes grants as invitation-based and focused on environmental priorities.⁴

• A Patagonia-hosted bibliography, with a filename dated 26 March 2026, includes an “El Cap Protests (2024)” section and sources concerning a Yosemite “Stop the Genocide” banner, Gaza casualties, Palestinian children killed in Gaza, and a Palestinian climber.⁵ The bibliography states that its resources informed the writing of an unidentified book, but does not itself establish Patagonia sponsorship of a protest, adoption of the sources’ characterisations, a corporate Israel-Palestine policy, or conflict-related funding.⁵

• No public evidence identified in the reviewed materials of a Patagonia corporate Israel-Palestine policy statement, boycott response, or state-partnership initiative.⁵

Operations in Occupied or Contested Territories

• Patagonia’s 2026 Modern Slavery Act Statement identifies Patagonia Works as a California benefit corporation and holding company for Patagonia, Inc., GPIW retail stores and associated entities, with business conducted through international subsidiaries and branches in California, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom.⁶

• That disclosure does not list Israel or the Occupied Palestinian Territory among Patagonia’s stated operating jurisdictions.⁶

• Patagonia’s owned-and-operated-facilities disclosure lists offices in the United States, Netherlands, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Chile and Argentina, while stating that Patagonia operates more than 100 stores worldwide.⁷

• Israel, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and Gaza are not identified in Patagonia’s facilities disclosure.⁷

• B Lab’s 2024 Patagonia certification list includes entities in the United States, South Korea, the Netherlands, Chile, Canada and Sweden, but does not identify an Israel-domiciled Patagonia entity.⁸

• No public evidence identified of a Patagonia-owned Israel-domiciled subsidiary, branch, company-operated store, office, settlement operation, supplier, service contract, facility, or legal entity registered in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights or Gaza within the reviewed materials.^{6, 7, 8}

• Third-party Israeli retail is documented. Patagonia Europe’s retrievable wetsuit-retailer page lists “ski & snowboard” at Charlotte de Bourbon Street 14, Tel Aviv, Israel, links to the retailer website, and states that Patagonia wetsuits may be bought through listed surf shops and stores.⁹

• The Tel Aviv listing remained publicly accessible when retrieved on 22 September 2026, but the page provides no effective, removal, or expiry date. It therefore establishes neither when the listing began nor whether it reflects a continuing supply or distribution contract.⁹

• Surf-Pass Israel states that it is Ski-Pass Ltd.’s surf division, imports and “exclusively distributes” Patagonia wetsuits among other brands, operates stores including a Tel Aviv flagship/head office, and distributes to more than 30 shops.¹⁰ Its stated current address differs from the address on Patagonia Europe’s retailer page; the reviewed materials do not establish relocation, a separate outlet, current inventory, contractual terms, sales volume, Patagonia ownership, or an occupied-territory nexus.^{10, 9}

Internal Governance, Content & Retail Policies

• Patagonia’s FY25 Climate Risk Report states that the Patagonia Purpose Trust is the company’s majority shareholder and elects Patagonia’s board.¹¹

• The same report states that the Board Finance, Risk and Impact Committee reviews environmental, social and governance risks and opportunities.¹¹

• Patagonia’s facilities disclosure identifies its global store footprint but does not identify stores in Israel or occupied Palestinian territory.⁷

• Patagonia’s Grant FAQ states that payments are acknowledged through Patagonia’s grants process and that Patagonia does not require North American grantees to submit progress or final reports.¹²

• Patagonia Action Works states that public donations to US-listed organisations are routed through a Network for Good donor-advised fund and then to a fiscal sponsor.¹³

• No public evidence identified of Israel-Palestine-specific employee discipline, staff-speech enforcement, content moderation, product-origin labelling, retail policy, supplier policy, or internal-policy measure in the reviewed materials.^{7, 9, 5}

Brand Heritage & State Partnerships

• Patagonia’s 2022 ownership announcement states that the Patagonia Purpose Trust received 2% of company stock and all voting shares, while the Holdfast Collective received 98% of stock and all non-voting shares.¹

• Patagonia states that the Purpose Trust approves key company decisions, including board composition and amendments to the corporate charter.¹

• Patagonia’s 2023–2024 Benefit Corporation Report confirms the 2022 transfer of ownership to the Patagonia Purpose Trust and Holdfast Collective.²

• No public evidence identified of a state partnership, government contract, Israeli military or military-welfare relationship, settlement-related initiative, or Israel-Palestine-related brand initiative in the reviewed materials.^{1, 2, 5}

Lobbying, Advocacy, Financing & Logistics

• The supplied IRS-record source identifies Holdfast Trust as a 501(c)(4) organisation and reports that Four Seas LLC, doing business as Holdfast Collective, served as institutional trustee during fiscal year 2024.¹⁴ This trustee record does not itself identify beneficial ownership or the geographic activities of Patagonia operating subsidiaries.¹⁴

• Patagonia states that the Chouinard family would guide the Patagonia Purpose Trust and the Holdfast Collective’s philanthropic work.¹

• PATAGONIAORG’s tax-year 2023 Form 990-PF identifies Patagonia Inc. as its listed Schedule B contributor and reports $12.8 million under Schedule B contributors; its tax-year 2022 filing likewise identifies Patagonia Inc. and reports $12.9 million.^{15, 16}

• The 2022 filing directs grant applications and restrictions to Patagonia’s funding webpage, establishing a direct Patagonia Inc.–PATAGONIAORG funding relationship and an operational connection through Patagonia’s published grant portal.^{16, 4} These records do not establish that PATAGONIAORG is a Patagonia Works subsidiary, parent entity, or entity legally controlled by the Patagonia Purpose Trust.^{15, 16}

• PATAGONIAORG’s 2022 and 2023 filings list grants under the generic purpose “to support environmental projects,” including grants to CAF America and Tikkun Olam Productions.^{15, 16} The filings do not disclose downstream recipients of CAF America grants.^{15, 16}

• Searches of the two reviewed PATAGONIAORG primary filings found no recipient or purpose expressly named “Israel” or “Palestine,” and no matches for Al-Haq, Adalah, Jewish Voice for Peace, Palestine Legal, IfNotNow, ANERA, New Israel Fund, or “Israel Foundation.”^{15, 16}

• No public evidence identified in the reviewed primary PATAGONIAORG filings of a grant expressly directed to an Israeli state-linked, military-welfare, settlement, Israel/Palestine advocacy, or Palestinian-rights recipient.^{15, 16} This filing-scoped conclusion does not trace intermediary grants or establish the geographic activities of all grantees.^{15, 16}

• Patagonia’s International Grants programme lists Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Chile, Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom as funded countries; Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory are not listed.¹⁷ That country list does not rule out funding through other programmes, US-based recipients, historic grants, or organisations operating across borders.¹⁷

• Patagonia’s FY2025 report states that its 1% for the Planet programme provided $14.7 million in grants and in-kind support to 824 nonprofits globally, and separately identifies a $2 million Holdfast Collective contribution to the Conservation Fund for land near Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp.³ Neither disclosure provides a complete recipient-level ledger or identifies an Israel/Palestine recipient.³

• No public evidence identified that Patagonia, Patagonia Works, Holdfast Collective, Patagonia Action Works, Surf-Pass, or Ski-Pass supplied equipment, logistics, free services, or funding to Israeli state bodies, the IDF/FIDF, settlement organisations, or military-welfare funds.^{10, 9, 3}

Corporate Structure & Primary Mission

• Patagonia Works is identified as a California benefit corporation and holding company for Patagonia, Inc., GPIW retail stores and other associated entities.⁶

• B Lab’s 2024 certification list identifies Patagonia Works, Patagonia, Inc., Patagonia International, Inc., Patagonia Korea Co., Ltd., Patagonia Direct, Inc., Patagonia Europe Cooperatief U.A., Patagonia Chile Limitada, Patagonia Canada, ULC, Great Pacific Iron Works and Patagonia Sweden AB as legal entities included under the Patagonia brand certification.⁸

• The same B Lab document separately lists Fletcher Chouinard Designs, Inc., Patagonia Provisions, Inc., Worn Wear, Inc. and Tin Shed Ventures, LLC.⁸

• UK Companies House records Patagonia Europe Cooperatief U.A. as an active Netherlands-incorporated overseas company with registration number 55132456.¹⁸ Its UK establishment remains open, was first opened on 26 November 2013, and describes its business as an outdoor-clothing-and-accessory provider.¹⁹

• The IRS-derived public record describes PATAGONIAORG, EIN 14-2004175, as a Ventura, California 501(c)(3), while cautioning that it is not in the IRS’s most recent exempt-organisation list.²⁰

• Patagonia describes Patagonia Action Works as a platform it built to connect individuals with environmental organisations and identifies listed organisations as Patagonia grantees.^{4, 21} Patagonia Works’ FAQ says that Patagonia Works provides member companies with collective accounting, legal and human-resources services, identifies it as holding company for Patagonia, Inc., Patagonia Provisions, Patagonia Media and future investments, and states that Ryan Gellert is CEO of both Patagonia Works and Patagonia, Inc.²²

• Patagonia’s disclosures therefore support attribution of Patagonia Action Works as a Patagonia-operated corporate programme/platform.^{4, 21, 22} They do not identify its precise legal owner, contractual structure, or separate governing board, and no public control document was located establishing that PATAGONIAORG is legally controlled by Patagonia Works or the Patagonia Purpose Trust.^{15, 16, 20}

Executive & Leadership Footprint

• Patagonia identifies Ryan Gellert as chief executive officer in its 2022 ownership announcement and 2025 Impact Report.^{1, 3}

• Patagonia’s 2022 announcement named Chouinard family members as continuing board members alongside Kris Tompkins, Dan Emmett, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Charles Conn as board chair and Ryan Gellert; the reviewed materials do not independently confirm their continued service after that announcement.¹

• Patagonia’s climate-risk disclosure states that the Purpose Trust elects the board, providing a disclosed governance connection between the Trust and board composition.¹¹

• PATAGONIAORG’s 2022 and 2023 filings list Yvon Chouinard and Malinda P. Chouinard as directors, with Hans Cole, Hilary Dessouky and Yvonne Besvold in officer roles.^{15, 16}

• No public evidence identified of Israel-Palestine-related donations, investments, board roles, or public advocacy by Yvon Chouinard, Ryan Gellert, the named directors, the Chouinard family, or the identified affiliated entities in the reviewed materials.^{1, 11, 15, 16}