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Top 25 Board development consultants based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 1,163 board development consultants headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 3,709 professional contacts across them, including 1,358 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers board development consultants headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest board development consultants based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At ESC, our mission is to empower nonprofits to achieve their goals & contribute to a more just and equitable world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We help nonprofits amplify their impact to create more good in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BoardSource envisions a future where the nonprofit community has the leadership to fulfill its purpose and create a just world where all can thrive.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As nonprofit leaders, you have to stay agile and resilient to remain profitable, sustainable, and ahead-always ensuring that growth equals funding, and that funding equals…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Co-founded by Bob Carter and Steve Higgins in 2011, Carter selects its team members from the nation’s most respected nonprofit professionals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Serving those who serve the common good.™ Fuel your cause with powerful fundraising, people, and systems.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are active participants in the revolution that has transformed how businesses produce and deliver their products and services and how organizations are structured.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Valtas stands for a shift or pivot forward.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Support Center is a nonprofit capacity building organization created as part of an international network of management support organizations (Support Centers of America)…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Institutions of higher education, independent schools and nonprofits constantly face challenges to raise sufficient funds, develop actionable strategic plans, recruit and engage…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “National Executive Services Corps (NESC) is a nonprofit professional services firm offering high-quality and affordable management consulting, executive search, and financial…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Ashley|Rountree and Associates is a seasoned team of consultants with decades of combined experience in nonprofit management, including fundraising, campaign planning, board and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A vital resource for ambitious organizations, equipping them to make connections, foster relationships, and evoke change, RJL Solutions is a certified woman-owned business located…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1984, Capital Development Services (“CapDev”) has an established reputation as trusted advisors in philanthropy and executive search, serving all types of nonprofits…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “EMD helps its mission-driven clients build organizational strength and agility through consulting and advising services in the areas of strategy, leadership, governance, capacity…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Healthy, thriving nonprofits are needed to drive positive social change in our world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “JamesDruryPartners is an elite board advisory services firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “What does it take to get a group of people to move as one?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Netzel Grigsby Associates (NGA), your vision is our mission.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Stewart Leadership, we help you achieve people results to drive business success.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1998, Inspire is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit offering management and strategy consulting services to leading nonprofit organizations across the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Adelante Partners is a full-service problem-solving consulting firm for nonprofit organizations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dunleavy & Associates is a comprehensive professional services firm that collectively brings over 100 years of practical experience in “building bottom lines” for organizations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mission & Data is a firm dedicated to the effectiveness, health, and vitality of educational institutions and other organizations that make the world a better place.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Piana Consulting believes in the power of the social sector to transform lives and change the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: board development consultants. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names board development consultants.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of board development consultants, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name board development consultants. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Board development consultants based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 1,163 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among board development consultants, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “board development consultants”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names board development consultants), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among board development consultants, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,358 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names board development consultants, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many board development consultants are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 1,163 board development consultants headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Empower Success Corps, headquartered in Boston, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most board development consultants?
New York leads with 54 headquartered companies, followed by Washington (46) and Chicago (39).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,358 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,163 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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