Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Nonprofit research centers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 658 nonprofit research centers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 26,069 professional contacts across them, including 6,786 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Washington the largest hub.
This list covers nonprofit research centers 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 nonprofit research centers follow the table.
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The 25 largest nonprofit research centers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,660 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “RAND is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that provides leaders with the information they need to make evidence-based decisions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,386 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “CNA is a nonprofit research and analysis organization dedicated to the safety and security of the nation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,343 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “IDA (Institute for Defense Analyses) – a not-for-profit corporation headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia just outside Washington, DC – operates three Federally Funded Research…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 961 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For more than 75 years we have used data to make a difference-addressing the challenges of a changing world by illuminating issues, creating common ground, and advancing ambitious…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 937 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is a bipartisan, nonprofit policy research organization dedicated to advancing practical ideas to address the world’s…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 517 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In 1958 the Air Force needed a technically qualified unbiased organization that could rapidly provide analysis for identified and evolving mission requirements.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 297 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is a private, nonprofit research organization dedicated to conducting and disseminating nonpartisan economic research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 237 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 222 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “RAND Europe is a not-for-profit research institute whose mission is to help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 214 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) is one of the leading economic research instituts in Germany.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 213 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) is recognized as one of the world's leading developers of cleaner, more efficient energy to power the world and environmental…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 180 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “NCAER is India's oldest and largest national, non-profit, economic research institute.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 174 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is an independent, bipartisan, nonprofit organization that develops strong, pragmatic, and principled national security and defense…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 169 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “LISER is a Luxembourgish public research institute under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 165 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CEPR is an independent, non‐partisan, pan‐European non‐profit organization.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 113 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies is an independent, 501(c)(3), not-for-profit public policy research institute.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 109 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Takshashila Institution is an independent centre for research and education in public policy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Het Verwey-Jonker Instituut doet onafhankelijk onderzoek naar actuele maatschappelijke vraagstukken.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “French nonpartisan and nonprofit think tank committed to the public interest.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 90 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “About Us Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR) is a think tank dedicated to extensive and in-depth research on current economic, social, and political issues.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Jakarta is an independent, non-profit organisation focusing on policy-oriented studies on domestic and international…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) is the national leader in market solutions for conservation, with over 40 years of research and a network of respected scholars…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The C.D.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Century Foundation is a progressive, independent, public policy think tank.” 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: nonprofit research centers. 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 nonprofit research centers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of nonprofit research centers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name nonprofit research centers. 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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Nonprofit research centers 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 nonprofit research centers, 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 nonprofit research centers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “nonprofit research centers”. 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 nonprofit research centers), 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 nonprofit research centers, 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, 6,786 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.
Nonprofit research centers by location
2 lists · largest firstEvery Nonprofit research centers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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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 nonprofit research centers, 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 nonprofit research centers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 658 nonprofit research centers 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?
RAND, headquartered in Santa Monica, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most nonprofit research centers?
The United States leads with 245 companies, followed by India (36). Every nonprofit research centers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most nonprofit research centers?
Washington leads with 36 headquartered companies, followed by New York (13) and London (12).
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 6,786 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 658 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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About this data
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.