Company: GDOT
Filing Date: 2025-05-30
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001386278-25-000048
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Company: GREEN DOT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-05-30
Form: S-8
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<div align='center'>As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 30, 2025</div>

#### Registration No. 333-

### UNITED STATES

### SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

#### WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
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#### FORM S-8
<div align='center'>REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</div>

### GREEN DOT CORPORATION
<div align='center'>(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)</div>

| Delaware                                                       
 (State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization) |     | 95-4766827                           
 (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |

| 1675 N. Freedom Blvd (200 West) Building 1           
 Provo, Utah 84604                                    
 (Address of Principal Executive Offices)  (Zip Code) |

| Green Dot Corporation 2010 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended and restated        
 Green Dot Corporation 2010 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as amended and restated |
| (Full Title of the Plans)                                                        |

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| William I Jacobs                           
 Interim Chief Executive Officer            
 Green Dot Corporation                      
 1675 N. Freedom Blvd (200 West) Building 1 
 Provo, Utah 84604                          |
| (Name and Address of Agent For Service)    |

| (626) 765-2000                                                |
| (Telephone Number, including area code, of agent for service) |

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Copies to:</div>

#### William L. Hughes, Esq.

#### Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

#### 405 Howard Street

#### San Francisco, California 94105
<div align='center'>(415) 773-5700

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

| Large accelerated filer |     | o |     | Accelerated filer         |     | þ |
| Non-accelerated filer   |