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Top 25 Childcare providers based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 11,211 childcare providers headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 173,596 professional contacts across them, including 23,578 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers childcare providers 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 childcare providers based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14,348 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Transform lives-including yours-with the nation’s leading provider of early childhood education and child care.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 7,226 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Goddard School uses the most current, academically endorsed methods to ensure that children have fun while learning the skills they need for long-term success in school and in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 5,746 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Primrose Schools® is a national franchise company that provides high-quality early education and care to children and families across America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 2,465 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Childcare Network was founded in 1988 in Columbus, Georgia with the initial acquisition of just two schools.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 2,102 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Child Care Services Association (CCSA) is now Early Years!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,878 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With more than 50 years of experience, we pride ourselves on being a trusted, supportive, reliable provider of early education and care.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 1,668 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Inspire a Love of Learning | Support Schools | Give Families Peace of Mind At 1,200+ schools nationwide, Right At School's Before & After School, Summer Camp, and Break Camp…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 1,440 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For more than five decades, Childtime has been a guiding light in the child care and early education field.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 968 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tutor Time has been supporting working families in Florida since the 1980s.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 950 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Teaching Strategies is the leading provider of curriculum, assessment, professional development, and family connection resources in the early childhood field.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 931 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AlphaBEST provides extended day, summer, and enrichment programs that are designed to inspire and engage students while they discover and learn beyond the school day in a fun…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 906 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “From the first hello of the day, to the last good-bye, we want every child to feel safe, nurtured, and excited to learn and grow with us, and for you to consider Lightbridge…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 885 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As of July 28th, 2022, College Nannies and Sitters is now Jovie!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 865 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sittercity is committed to connecting families with high-quality, trustworthy child care providers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 860 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Cadence Education is one of the nation’s premier early childhood educators, providing high-quality childcare and early learning programs including play-based, Montessori, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 803 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Child Care Resource Center (CCRC) assists close to parents, children, and child care providers each month in Northern Los Angeles County and the entirety of San Bernardino County…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 648 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Children of America (COA): It’s A Special Recipe of People, Principles And Pride.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 641 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gymboree Play & Music has been fostering creativity and confidence in children ages 0-5 for over 45 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 635 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The National Head Start Association is a leading non-partisan, nonprofit organization that believes that every child, regardless of circumstances at birth, has the ability to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 614 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Upbring is committed to breaking the generational cycle of child abuse by addressing its root causes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 606 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Brightside Academy proudly offers quality education and child care to children from all families and socio-economic backgrounds.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 600 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “One Hope United (OHU) is a nonprofit providing early childhood education, child and family services, clinical services, and residential programs for 130 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 593 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Join our team at Thrive Skilled Pediatric Care (Thrive SPC) where we have a clear mission: to provide high quality clinical home care to medically fragile children so they can…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 578 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Children’s Courtyard was founded in Arlington, Texas, in 1986.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 565 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1966, ECS4Kids (Episcopal Children's Services) is a Non-Profit organization with strong entrepreneurial spirit that uses research and the best practices to help…” 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: childcare providers. 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 childcare providers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of childcare providers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name childcare providers. 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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Childcare providers 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 11,211 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 childcare providers, 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 “childcare providers”. 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 childcare providers), 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 childcare providers, 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, 23,578 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
- 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.
Childcare providers by metro
- Childcare providers in New York212
- Childcare providers in Chicago146
- Childcare providers in Houston90
- Childcare providers in Philadelphia90
- Childcare providers in San Francisco87
- Childcare providers in Portland73
- Childcare providers in Seattle67
- Childcare providers in Los Angeles65
- Childcare providers in Austin63
- Childcare providers in Columbus63
- Childcare providers in Dallas60
- Childcare providers in Charlotte55
- Childcare providers in Washington54
- Childcare providers in San Antonio53
- Childcare providers in Atlanta51
- Childcare providers in San Diego51
- Childcare providers in Miami50
- Childcare providers in Omaha46
- Childcare providers in Orlando43
- Childcare providers in Madison41
- Childcare providers in Pittsburgh41
- Childcare providers in San Jose40
- Childcare providers in Indianapolis39
- Childcare providers in Albuquerque38
- Childcare providers in Denver38
- Childcare providers in Bronx37
- Childcare providers in Louisville36
- Childcare providers in Phoenix36
- Childcare providers in Springfield36
- Childcare providers in Minneapolis35
- Childcare providers in Raleigh35
- Childcare providers in Brooklyn34
- Childcare providers in Jacksonville34
- Childcare providers in Sacramento33
- Childcare providers in Tampa33
- Childcare providers in Cincinnati32
- Childcare providers in Columbia32
- Childcare providers in Boston31
- Childcare providers in Kansas City31
- Childcare providers in Wilmington31
- Childcare providers in Lincoln30
- Childcare providers in Richmond30
- Childcare providers in Fort Worth29
- Childcare providers in Nashville29
- Childcare providers in Oakland29
- Childcare providers in Arlington28
- Childcare providers in Milwaukee28
- Childcare providers in Rochester28
- Childcare providers in Cleveland27
- Childcare providers in Canton26
- Childcare providers in Gainesville26
- Childcare providers in Durham25
- Childcare providers in Fayetteville25
- Childcare providers in Las Vegas25
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 childcare providers, 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 childcare providers are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 11,211 childcare providers 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?
Kindercare Learning Companies, headquartered in Lake Oswego, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most childcare providers?
New York leads with 212 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (146) and Houston (90).
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 23,578 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 11,211 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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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.
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