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Top 25 Religious publishers based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 629 religious publishers headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 12,761 professional contacts across them, including 3,144 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers religious publishers 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 21, 2026.
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The 25 largest religious publishers based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,477 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “HarperCollins Publishers is the second-largest consumer book publisher in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 749 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “OCP (Oregon Catholic Press) is a not-for-profit publisher of liturgical music and worship resources, offering missals, hymnals, liturgical planning tools, parish events, CDs and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 522 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 1866, Deseret Book Company has been the market leader in the publishing, distribution, and retailing of faith-based books, music, DVDs, religious art and home decor, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 335 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Tyndale House is one of the largest independently-owned Christian publishers in the world, on mission to open God's Word to as many people as possible.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 314 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BJU Press is located in beautiful Greenville, South Carolina, and is a ministry of BJU Education Group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 308 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our Sunday Visitor, now known as OSV, is the largest Catholic publishing company in the U.S, serving parishes and dioceses nationwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 235 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Baker Publishing Group publishes high-quality writings that represent historic Christianity and serve the diverse interests and concerns of evangelical readers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 197 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Zondervan, part of HarperCollins Christian Publishing, is a world leading Bible publisher and provider of Christian communications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 192 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CPH is hiring!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 178 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Thomas Nelson, Inc, part of HarperCollins Christian Publishing, is a world leading provider of Christian content and has been providing readers with quality inspirational product…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 169 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Christian Faith Publishing is a full-service book publisher based and operated in the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 148 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Crossway is a not-for-profit publisher of Christian books, the English Standard Version (ESV) Bible, and other gospel literature.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 145 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Xulon Press is the largest, most experienced Christian owned and operated print-on-demand self publisher of Christian books.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 122 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Decided Excellence Catholic Media (DE) is one of the fastest growing companies of any kind in North America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 121 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1947 as an extension of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Skyhorse Publishing, one of the fastest-growing independent book publishers in the United States, was launched in September 2006 by Tony Lyons, former president and publisher of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 90 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Harvest House Publishers was conceived in 1974 with just five titles and a dream in the heart of its founder, Bob Hawkins, Sr.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 90 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “WHO WE ARE AND OUR VISION Based in the land of great microbrews and towering Douglas firs, Wipf and Stock Publishers is a creative team, an adventurous bunch who arrive to work…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hospital Pharmacy Inc is a publishing company based out of 401 Ne 1st St, Enterprise, Oregon, United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Rooted, Reforming, Responsive.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Charisma Media is a Christian multi-media company, long recognized as an innovator and known as the leading Charismatic/Pentecostal publisher in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Word Among Us, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The church lives in a new day and a changing time.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Page Street Publishing is a Publishing company located in 31 Forest Ave, Essex, MA, United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Who We Are UMI is the largest African American Christian media firm serving tens of thousands of churches and numerous denominations with published resources and digital media…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 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: religious publishers. 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 religious publishers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of religious publishers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name religious publishers. 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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Religious publishers based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 21, 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 629 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 religious publishers, 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 “religious publishers”. 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 religious publishers), 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 religious publishers, 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, 3,144 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 21, 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 religious publishers, 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 religious publishers are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 629 religious publishers 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?
Harpercollins Publishers, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most religious publishers?
New York leads with 21 headquartered companies, followed by Nashville (12) and Colorado Springs (10).
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 3,144 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 629 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 21, 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.