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Top 25 Nonprofit executive search firms based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 1,888 nonprofit executive search firms headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 21,288 professional contacts across them, including 7,737 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers nonprofit executive search firms 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 29, 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 nonprofit executive search firms based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 2,889 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 807 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “True is modernizing executive hiring by combining global search expertise with the True AI Capability Index™, the industry’s only methodology for assessing candidate adaptability…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 766 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Great organizations need exceptional leaders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 656 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “For more than 35 years, DHR has been a leading provider of executive search, leadership consulting and emerging leader search solutions, serving more than 60 markets around the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 486 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PNP Staffing Group believes in the power of nonprofits to make a difference, and we provide the staff to help make that difference.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 474 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “WittKieffer is the premier executive search and leadership advisory firm developing impactful leadership teams for organizations that improve quality of life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 442 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “JJA is a team of executive headhunters specializing in swift, discreet, drama-free placements across the innovation economy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 300 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Nonprofit HR was founded with one goal in mind: to strengthen the social impact sector by strengthening its people.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 250 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Isaacson, Miller is one of the nation's premier executive search firms serving organizations that advance the public good.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 156 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “What got us here won’t get us there… Business today is more volatile and unpredictable than ever.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 138 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Vida Group International is a world-class executive search firm trusted by leading companies to find exceptional senior talent across industries and borders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 129 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As a matter of practice, UBER Search Partners does not post most of our C-Level searches.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 125 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “BWF Zuri is the nonprofit sector’s most comprehensive fundraising consulting company, helping organizations thrive in a rapidly changing landscape.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 121 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 2007 and headquartered in northern New Jersey, Fusion Staffing Partners is an executive search firm dedicated to the Financial, Business and Professional Services…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 116 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We solve talent leadership challenges.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 114 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 102 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Campbell & Company is a national nonprofit consulting firm that helps organizations create greater impact through fundraising, communications and strategic information services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Landing Point is an executive search and consulting firm specializing in the recruitment of Accounting & Finance, Capital Formation & Investment Support, HR & Talent Acquisition…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Where executive search is human-first.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since our beginning in 1985, Slayton Search Partners' strategy has been to focus on possibilities, not limitations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “AGB Search offers executive search, interim search, and compensation benchmarking exclusively for higher education institutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Lancor is a global retained executive search firm serving public and private companies, private equity firms and other investors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Hazard, Young, Attea and Associates (HYA) is a preeminent education consulting firm with over 30 years of executive search and education consulting experience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over 30 years, Lauber Business Partners, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 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: nonprofit executive search firms. 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 nonprofit executive search firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of nonprofit executive search firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name nonprofit executive search firms. 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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Nonprofit executive search firms based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 29, 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 1,888 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 nonprofit executive search firms, 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 “nonprofit executive search firms”. 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 nonprofit executive search firms), 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 nonprofit executive search firms, 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, 7,737 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 29, 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.
Nonprofit executive search firms by metro
- Nonprofit executive search firms in New York161
- Nonprofit executive search firms in Chicago80
- Nonprofit executive search firms in Atlanta49
- Nonprofit executive search firms in Washington48
- Nonprofit executive search firms in Los Angeles47
- Nonprofit executive search firms in Boston42
- Nonprofit executive search firms in Houston38
- Nonprofit executive search firms in Dallas35
- Nonprofit executive search firms in San Francisco34
- Nonprofit executive search firms in Austin27
- Nonprofit executive search firms in Seattle26
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 nonprofit executive search firms, 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 nonprofit executive search firms are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 1,888 nonprofit executive search firms 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?
Spencer Stuart, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most nonprofit executive search firms?
New York leads with 161 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (80) and Atlanta (49).
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 7,737 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,888 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 29, 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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