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Top 25 Food cooperatives based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 463 food cooperatives headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 16,962 professional contacts across them, including 5,024 with verified work emails. Chicago is the largest hub.
This list covers food cooperatives 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 20, 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 food cooperatives based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,257 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “About Wakefern Food Corp.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,125 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc.(AWG) is the nation’s largest cooperative food wholesaler to independently owned supermarkets, serving 1,100 member companies and 3,500 locations…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 892 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “85 Years: United in Service Associated Food Stores, Inc, headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, is a cooperatively owned wholesale distributor to almost 500 independently owned…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 650 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In 1937, a few grocery store owners came together with the idea to use their combined size and strength to provide customers with the products they wanted at the low prices they…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 606 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in Seattle in 1953, PCC Community Markets (PCC) is a certified organic retailer and the nation’s largest community-owned food market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 573 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 1960, Tree Top has been making delicious, feel-good foods and drinks using simple, quality ingredients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 566 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Topco was formed to help ensure regional grocery retailers and wholesalers the ability to support their communities by providing families with high quality yet affordable products…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 338 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “City Market, Onion River Co-op, is a community-owned food cooperative with two locations in beautiful Burlington, Vermont.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 251 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Frontier Co-op specializes in natural and organic products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 219 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “New Leaf Community Markets opened its doors as a small cooperative in 1985 on the Westside of Santa Cruz.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 213 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “IPC is an independent SUBWAY® franchisee-owned and operated purchasing cooperative.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 195 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At some point over the last few days, UniPro Foodservice, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 190 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Associated Grocers of New England, Inc, was organized in February 1946 by an enterprising group of 18 Independent Retailers who resolved to form a company with greater purchasing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 178 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 1920 Valley Wide Cooperative (VWC) has empowered agricultural members to increase their bargaining power and gain market share to achieve economies of scale through its…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 146 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “National Co+op Grocers (NCG), founded in is a business services cooperative for retail food co-ops located throughout the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 140 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Outpost Coop Grocery Store exists so that our owners have a healthy, diverse and sustainable community.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 139 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “River Valley Cooperative exists to supply our producers' feed, agronomy, and energy needs while offering a viable market for their grain.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 133 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “A full-service grocery cooperative specializing in natural, organic and locally produced foods.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 116 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Equal Exchange's mission is to build long-term trade partnerships that are economically just and environmentally sound, to foster mutually beneficial relationships between farmers…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 106 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Weavers Way Co-op is a member owned community food market open to everyone.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 95 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mid-States Distributing is a member-owned retail cooperative helping independent Farm, Ranch, and Home retailers compete and win.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 90 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Cooperatives are member-owned, member-governed businesses that operate for the benefit of their members according to common principles agreed upon by the international cooperative…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For over 50 years, the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op has been owned by thousands of members of the community.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Community Food Co-op is a consumer-owned natural foods grocer with two locations serving Bellingham and Whatcom County with quality products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Wheatsville Food Co-Op | Austin, TX | Community-owned since 1976 Our Purpose: To create a self-reliant, self-empowering community of people that will grow and promote a…” 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: food cooperatives. 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 food cooperatives.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of food cooperatives, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name food cooperatives. 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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Food cooperatives based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 20, 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 463 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 food cooperatives, 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 “food cooperatives”. 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 food cooperatives), 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 food cooperatives, 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, 5,024 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.
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 food cooperatives, 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 food cooperatives are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 463 food cooperatives 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?
Wakefern Food Corp, headquartered in Keasbey, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most food cooperatives?
Chicago leads with 11 headquartered companies, followed by Atlanta (5) and Berkeley (5).
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 5,024 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 463 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.