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Top 25 Conservation nonprofits based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 3,126 conservation nonprofits headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 63,266 professional contacts across them, including 23,545 with verified work emails. Washington is the largest hub.
This list covers conservation nonprofits 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 conservation nonprofits based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 6,526 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Air, water, food, shelter, income: nature sustains every aspect of our lives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 3,663 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “WCS stands for wildlife and wild places.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,560 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 1987, Conservation International has worked to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,352 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are Environmental Defense Fund, a leading environmental nonprofit focused on stabilizing the climate while helping build strong and healthy communities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,290 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Our planet faces many big conservation challenges.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 942 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “NRDC is the nation's most effective environmental action organization.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 900 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The National Audubon Society protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow, throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education, and on-the-ground…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 795 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Student Conservation Association (SCA) is the largest provider of hands-on environmental conservation programs for youth and adults.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 738 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The mission of the nonprofit Monterey Bay Aquarium is to inspire conservation of the ocean.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 672 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Earthjustice is a non-profit public interest law organization dedicated to protecting the magnificent places, natural resources, and wildlife of this earth, and to defending the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 585 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As America's largest non-profit conservation organization, the National Wildlife Federation works closely with those who span the social and political spectrum, but who are…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 554 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mass Audubon is the largest nature-based conservation organization in New England.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 531 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Trust for Public Land (TPL) is a national nonprofit that works to connect everyone to the benefits and joys of the outdoors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 521 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “American Conservation Experience (ACE) is a national nonprofit conservation corps that recruits, trains, and mobilizes over young adults and emerging professionals annually to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 500 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vision We envision a world where wildlife and humans flourish together.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 382 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “To promote health and happiness through the enjoyment of nature and the world around us” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 378 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The mission of the Appalachian Mountain Club is to foster the protection, enjoyment, and understanding of the outdoors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 371 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Detroit Zoological Society (DZS) is a nonprofit organization that operates the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak, Mich.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 368 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Rare is a global leader in driving social change for people and nature.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 356 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “San Antonio Zoo® is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization committed to securing a future for wildlife.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 355 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “IFAW explores new ways to improve conditions for animals, people, and the place we call home-and we’ve been leading the way for over 50 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 337 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever make up the nation's largest nonprofit organization dedicated to upland habitat conservation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 315 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 1981, the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy (Parks Conservancy) has served as the nonprofit partner of the National Park Service, collaborating with the Presidio Trust…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 312 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Whitewater is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and outdoor lifestyle brand that facilitates outdoor access by lowering barriers and inspiring people to get outside.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 303 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Named a USA Top Workplace in 2023** For a century, National Parks Conservation Association has been a powerful independent voice working to strengthen and protect America's…” 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: conservation 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 conservation nonprofits.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of conservation nonprofits, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name conservation 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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Conservation nonprofits 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 3,126 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 conservation 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “conservation 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 conservation 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 conservation nonprofits, 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, 23,545 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.
Conservation nonprofits by metro
- Conservation nonprofits in Washington82
- Conservation nonprofits in New York56
- Conservation nonprofits in Portland51
- Conservation nonprofits in San Francisco43
- Conservation nonprofits in Denver36
- Conservation nonprofits in Seattle35
- Conservation nonprofits in Los Angeles32
- Conservation nonprofits in Atlanta30
- Conservation nonprofits in Austin27
- Conservation nonprofits in San Diego25
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 conservation 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 conservation nonprofits are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 3,126 conservation nonprofits 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?
The Nature Conservancy, headquartered in Arlington, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most conservation nonprofits?
Washington leads with 82 headquartered companies, followed by New York (56) and Portland (51).
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 23,545 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 3,126 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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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.
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