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Top 25 Economic development agencies based in the United States

Name: Economic development agencies based in the United States
Creator: RevenueBase
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 19, 2026 1,676 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 1,676 economic development agencies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 80,262 professional contacts across them, including 24,061 with verified work emails. Chicago is the largest hub.

This list covers economic development agencies 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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 19, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

1,676Companies

80,262Contacts tracked

24,061Verified emails

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The 25 largest economic development agencies based in the United States

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 1,676 economic development agencies based in the United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 19, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to economic development agencies: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	IFC	Partial evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	1,001-5,000	8,388 contacts →
	Partial evidence “IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is the largest global development institution focused exclusively on the private sector in developing countries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
2	Allegheny County	Indirect evidence	Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	5,001-10,000	2,059 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Allegheny County is home to some of the world’s leading businesses and organizations in the fields of advanced manufacturing, information & communications technology, healthcare &…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
3	Sarasota County Government	Indirect evidence	Sarasota, FL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,672 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “OUR VISION Sarasota County is a beautiful community that has preserved natural assets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
4	Acdi Voca	Strong evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,152 contacts →
	Strong evidence “ACDI/VOCA is an economic development organization that fosters broad-based economic growth, raises living standards, and creates vibrant communities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
5	City Of Greeley	Indirect evidence	Greeley, CO, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	1,001-5,000	718 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Greeley, Colorado, is a city achieving community excellence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
6	NEW York City Economic Development Corporation	Strong evidence	New York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	201-500	660 contacts →
	Strong evidence “New York City Economic Development Corporation is a mission-driven, nonprofit organization that works for a vibrant, inclusive, and globally competitive economy for all New…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
7	Seeking Employment	Indirect evidence	Aliquippa, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	51-200	590 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Responsible for securing and maintaining contracts with business and industry and creating marketing activities designed to develop new business for people with disabilities” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
8	City Of Mcallen, TX	Indirect evidence	Mcallen, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	1,001-5,000	575 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “McAllen, Texas, is a thriving hub for international business and commerce, strategically located at the heart of the U.S-Mexico border.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
9	Portland Development Commission	Strong evidence	Portland, OR, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	51-200	500 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Prosper Portland (formerly Portland Development Commission) creates economic growth and opportunity for Portland.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
10	City Of Coral Gables	Indirect evidence	Coral Gables, FL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	501-1,000	477 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Known as The City Beautiful, Coral Gables stands out as a planned community that blends color, details, and the Mediterranean Revival architectural style.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
11	City Of SAN Bernardino	Indirect evidence	San Bernardino, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	501-1,000	419 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “City of San Bernardino Municipal Government Vision Statement Our vision for the City of San Bernardino is for it to be strong and prosperous.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
12	City Of Elgin, IL	Indirect evidence	Elgin, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	501-1,000	384 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Elgin is a unique community that proudly distinguishes itself from the rest of the metropolitan area.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
13	Commerce City	Indirect evidence	Commerce City, CO, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	501-1,000	371 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Welcome to Commerce City, where we mean business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
14	City Of Vallejo, California	Indirect evidence	Vallejo, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	501-1,000	359 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We're proud of our 200-year heritage.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
15	City Of Tracy	Indirect evidence	Tracy, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	501-1,000	332 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Tracy is a community where neighbors and local merchants greet you by name and the welcoming never stops.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
16	LOS Angeles County Development Authority	Partial evidence	Alhambra, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	501-1,000	314 contacts →
	Partial evidence “The Los Angeles County Development Authority (LACDA), formerly known as the Community Development Commission/Housing Authority of the County of Los Angeles, is a dynamic…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
17	City Of Alpharetta	Indirect evidence	Alpharetta, GA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	201-500	297 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Having recently been named by Nerd Wallet as the best place in America to start a business and by Forbes Magazine as one of the friendliest cities in America, it should come as no…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
18	City Of Warren, MI	Indirect evidence	Warren, MI, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	501-1,000	287 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Warren is Michigan's third-largest city.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
19	Virginia Economic Development Partnership	Strong evidence	Richmond, VA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	201-500	284 contacts →
	Strong evidence “The Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP), a state authority created by the Virginia General Assembly to better serve existing and new companies, to expand, locate, or…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
20	City Of Racine	Partial evidence	Racine, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	501-1,000	262 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Priding Ourselves in Responding to the Needs of Our Citizens by Enhancing the Quality of Life and Promoting Economic Growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
21	Georgia Department Of Economic Development	Strong evidence	Atlanta, GA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	201-500	256 contacts →
	Strong evidence “The Georgia Department of Economic Development (GDEcD) is the state’s sales and marketing arm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
22	City Of Palm Beach Gardens	Indirect evidence	Palm Beach Gardens, FL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	501-1,000	251 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, is a Signature City which celebrates quality-of-life by fostering an environment of excellence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
23	Mississippi Development Authority	Indirect evidence	Jackson, MS, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	201-500	242 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Empower your business and increase speed to market with Mississippi’s flexible incentives, shovel-ready sites and streamlined process.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
24	City Of SAN Clemente	Indirect evidence	San Clemente, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	201-500	216 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Mission Statement: The City of San Clemente, in partnership with the community we serve, will foster a tradition dedicated to: Maintaining a safe, healthy atmosphere in which to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
25	City Of Deerfield Beach	Indirect evidence	Deerfield Beach, FL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	501-1,000	216 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Deerfield Beach continues to grow amidst the beautiful and world famous gold coast of Southeast Florida.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026

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: economic development agencies. 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 economic development agencies.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of economic development agencies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name economic development agencies. 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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Economic development agencies based in the United States at a glance

As of Sep 19, 2026

30.0%Verified-email coverage

47.9Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

0.9%Largest-city concentration · Chicago

Sep 19, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

976

11-50

333

51-200

168

201-500

501-1,000

1,001-5,000

5,001-10,000

10001+

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 1,676 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 economic development agencies, 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 “economic development agencies”. 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 economic development agencies), 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 economic development agencies, 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, 24,061 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.

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 economic development agencies, 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 economic development agencies are there based in the United States?

RevenueBase identified 1,676 economic development agencies 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?

IFC, headquartered in Washington, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most economic development agencies?

Chicago leads with 15 headquartered companies, followed by Columbus (13) and Washington (13).

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 24,061 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,676 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.