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Top 25 Economic development organizations based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 5,584 economic development organizations headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 135,929 professional contacts across them, including 46,820 with verified work emails. Washington is the largest hub.
This list covers economic development organizations 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 economic development organizations based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 3,879 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Providing intelligent real estate solutions and industry data that transform the way communities live, work, and play.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,712 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tulsa is nestled in the northeastern quadrant of Oklahoma, right in the heart of “Green Country.” The rolling green hills and wooded terrain of the city lies at an elevation of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,448 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pierce County is a great place to live, work and raise a family.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,166 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Winrock is a recognized leader in U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 771 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The City of Santa Rosa is the North Bay's premier location for technology and entrepreneurial businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 718 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Greeley, Colorado, is a city achieving community excellence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 512 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SAFEbuilt has the technical expertise to provide Community Development services, but the reason for our success is our people.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 500 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Prosper Portland (formerly Portland Development Commission) creates economic growth and opportunity for Portland.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 487 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Westhab’s mission is: Building Communities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 423 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Grant Associates raises the economic security of the people, businesses, and communities we serve through workforce development, business insight and bold ideas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 371 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to Commerce City, where we mean business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 359 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We're proud of our 200-year heritage.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 338 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The City of Oxnard is located on the “Gold Coast” of sunny California, approximately halfway between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, and is known as the gateway to the Channel…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 333 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our family-oriented lifestyle, small-town charm, and southern hospitality make Cleveland County a great place to live, work and play and that's why nearly people call this place…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 295 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) assists countries around the world in agenda-setting and decision-making with the goal of meeting their…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 287 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Warren is Michigan's third-largest city.” 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: economic development 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 economic development organizations.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of economic development organizations, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name economic development 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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Economic development organizations 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 5,584 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 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “economic development 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 economic development 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 economic development organizations, 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, 46,820 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.
Economic development organizations by metro
- Economic development organizations in Washington119
- Economic development organizations in New York99
- Economic development organizations in Chicago92
- Economic development organizations in Atlanta75
- Economic development organizations in Los Angeles70
- Economic development organizations in Miami52
- Economic development organizations in Detroit45
- Economic development organizations in Philadelphia44
- Economic development organizations in Pittsburgh42
- Economic development organizations in Austin40
- Economic development organizations in Columbus40
- Economic development organizations in Denver38
- Economic development organizations in Houston38
- Economic development organizations in Indianapolis35
- Economic development organizations in Boston34
- Economic development organizations in Dallas31
- Economic development organizations in Seattle29
- Economic development organizations in Baltimore27
- Economic development organizations in Greenville25
- Economic development organizations in Orlando25
- Economic development organizations in San Francisco25
- Economic development organizations in Springfield25
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 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 economic development organizations are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 5,584 economic development organizations 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 organizations?
Washington leads with 119 headquartered companies, followed by New York (99) and Chicago (92).
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 46,820 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 5,584 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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