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Top 25 Nonprofit research organizations worldwide
RevenueBase identified 678 nonprofit research organizations worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 30,974 professional contacts across them, including 9,088 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Washington the largest hub.
This list covers nonprofit research organizations 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 organizations 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 nonprofit research organizations worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8,490 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “MITRE is a nonprofit systems engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 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. | |||||
| 3 | 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. | |||||
| 4 | 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. | |||||
| 5 | 1,261 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Noblis is a nonprofit science, technology, and strategy organization that brings the best of scientific thought, management, and engineering expertise in an environment of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 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. | |||||
| 7 | 672 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1967, Riverside Research is a nonprofit organization chartered to advance scientific research for the benefit of the US government and in the public interest.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 643 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “GRC Group (Global Research & Consulting) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with over active students from various cultural and academic backgrounds.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 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. | |||||
| 10 | 401 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization working to building a better government and a stronger democracy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 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. | |||||
| 12 | 254 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our mission is to use rigorous, independent science to solve our planet's most pressing problems.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 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. | |||||
| 14 | 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. | |||||
| 15 | 114 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Prayas is a non-profit Trust, based in Pune, India.” 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 | 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. | |||||
| 18 | 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. | |||||
| 19 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “IMPAQ International was acquired by the American Institutes for Research in May 2020.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 89 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Vital Research was founded in Los Angeles in 1982 by two colleagues who were committed to doing quality social science research that made a difference in the lives of others.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 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. | |||||
| 22 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The C.D.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Charles F.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Fundación para la Educación Superior y el Desarrollo (Fedesarrollo) es una entidad privada sin ánimo de lucro.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Omni Institute is a nonprofit social science consultancy that provides integrated research, evaluation, and capacity-building services to accelerate positive social change.” 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 organizations. 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 organizations.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of nonprofit research organizations, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name nonprofit research organizations. 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 organizations 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 organizations, 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 organizations are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “nonprofit research organizations”. 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 organizations), 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 organizations, 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, 9,088 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 organizations by location
2 lists · largest firstEvery Nonprofit research organizations 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 organizations, 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 organizations are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 678 nonprofit research organizations 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?
MITRE, headquartered in Mclean, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most nonprofit research organizations?
The United States leads with 261 companies, followed by India (32). Every nonprofit research organizations list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most nonprofit research organizations?
Washington leads with 21 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (10) and London (9).
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 9,088 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 678 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.