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Top 25 Literary nonprofits worldwide
RevenueBase identified 5,477 literary nonprofits worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 31,622 professional contacts across them, including 4,574 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and New York the largest hub.
This list covers literary nonprofits worldwide, 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 20, 2026. Country and city lists for literary nonprofits follow the table.
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 literary nonprofits worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 239 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Créées en 1978, dans un village de la vallée des Baux, par Hubert Nyssen et sa femme, Christine Le Boeuf, bientôt rejoints par les autres fondateurs, Françoise Nyssen, Bertrand…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 182 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Varje gång du väljer förlaget Natur & Kultur är du med och bidrar till något större.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 173 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Faber is one of the world’s great independent publishing houses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 166 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BriBooks is the world’s leading children creative writing platform, enabling children of all ages to learn creative writing, publish their books online, and sell printed-on-demand…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 153 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect open expression in the United States and worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 141 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “انطلقت مؤسسة أدب عام برؤية ثقافية راسخة تهدف إلى خدمة اللغة العربية وحفظ التراث الأدبي، عبر مشاريع نوعية في التوثيق، الترجمة، النشر، البحث العلمي، والفعاليات الثقافية.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 137 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Katha is an Indian non-profit organization that seamlessly connects grassroots work in quality publishing, education and urban resurgence to bring children living in poverty into…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 130 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Count Basie Center for the Arts is New Jersey’s premier center for the cultural arts, dedicated to fostering powerful, inclusive artistic experiences and creative exchange of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 129 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For nearly three decades, we have broken through polarizing forces to mentor, train, and connect writers across generations, gender, class, region, race, politics, beliefs…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 125 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Other Press attracts authors who are guided by a passion to discover the limits of knowledge and imagination.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 124 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “826 Valencia is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting students ages six to eighteen with their writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 120 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hindawi Foundation is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of promoting education and culture and spreading the love of reading across diverse communities and languages.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Na Editora Dialética, acreditamos que os novos desafios do Mercado Editorial devem ser encarados com criatividade e inovação.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mission: The Poetry Foundation transforms lives through the power of words.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 114 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GrubStreet is one of the nation's leading creative writing centers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 112 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We foster joy, literacy, and critical thinking in children and teens from all backgrounds through creative writing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 112 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Coverfly, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Backstage, connects emerging writers with Hollywood, guiding writers to improve their craft and career through partnerships with top…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 109 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Loft Literary Center is one of the nation's leading literary arts centers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 108 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are not just another publishing house.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 103 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Story Pirates is a nationally respected education and media organization founded in 2003 to celebrate the words and ideas of young people.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 102 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Knowledge is the most powerful engine for economic growth worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “I Saxo elsker vi bøger, og alt det bøger kan betyde for dig og for samfundet.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Ana Aqra Association is an independent nonprofit organization that advances literacy and autonomous learning for underprivileged children in Lebanese public schools.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2015, StoryMirror is a tech start-up focussed towards building a creative ecosystem that offers everyone a platform to launch themselves in the field of literature.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 95 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SAD Magazine is an independent Vancouver publication featuring stories, art, and design.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 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: literary nonprofits. 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 literary nonprofits.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of literary nonprofits, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name literary nonprofits. 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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Literary nonprofits worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
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 literary nonprofits, 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.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for literary nonprofits are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “literary nonprofits”. 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 literary nonprofits), 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 literary nonprofits, and records with no verified work email.
- 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, 4,574 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 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Literary nonprofits by location
20 lists · largest firstEvery Literary nonprofits list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Literary nonprofits based in the United States1,710
- Literary nonprofits based in India310
- Literary nonprofits based in the United Kingdom292
- Literary nonprofits based in France241
- Literary nonprofits based in Brazil194
- Literary nonprofits based in Spain166
- Literary nonprofits based in Canada144
- Literary nonprofits based in Italy126
- Literary nonprofits based in Australia89
- Literary nonprofits based in Germany86
- Literary nonprofits based in the Netherlands69
- Literary nonprofits based in Ireland26
Cities
- Literary nonprofits based in New York, United States140
- Literary nonprofits based in Los Angeles, United States48
- Literary nonprofits based in Chicago, United States43
- Literary nonprofits based in San Francisco, United States38
- Literary nonprofits based in Brooklyn, United States28
- Literary nonprofits based in Washington, United States27
- Literary nonprofits based in Portland, United States26
- Literary nonprofits based in Boston, United States25
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 literary nonprofits, 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 literary nonprofits are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 5,477 literary nonprofits worldwide 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?
Actes SUD, headquartered in Worldwide, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most literary nonprofits?
The United States leads with 1,710 companies, followed by India (310) and the United Kingdom (292). Every literary nonprofits list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most literary nonprofits?
New York leads with 140 headquartered companies, followed by London (111) and Paris (84).
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 4,574 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 5,477 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 20, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.