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Top 25 Rural development organizations based in India

RevenueBase identified 1,452 rural development organizations headquartered in India as of September 2026 and tracks 42,026 professional contacts across them, including 4,530 with verified work emails. New Delhi is the largest hub.

This list covers rural development organizations headquartered in India, 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.

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.

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The 25 largest rural development organizations based in India

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 1,452 rural development organizations based in India, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 21, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to rural development organizations: 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.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Indirect evidenceMumbai, IndiaHQ checked Sep 21, 202610001+2,829 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
2Strong evidenceNew Delhi, IndiaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026501-1,0001,520 contacts →

Strong evidence

“PRADAN (Professional Assistance for Development Action) is a non-government, non-profit organisation that works with India’s rural underserved.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
3Partial evidencePatna, IndiaHQ checked Sep 21, 20265,001-10,0001,232 contacts →

Partial evidence

“JEEVlKA is India’s largest state level women’s socio-economic empowerment program, working directly with 1.81 crore families in rural Bihar and is one of the flagship programs for…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
4Indirect evidenceHyderabad, IndiaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026501-1,0001,130 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Naandi, which in Sanskrit means a new beginning; is one of the largest and fastest growing social sector organisations in India working to make poverty history.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
5Partial evidencePune, IndiaHQ checked Sep 21, 20265,001-10,0001,075 contacts →

Partial evidence

“BAIF Development Research Foundation with its legacy in grassroots development spanning over 59 years, has brightened the lives of 4 million families from 113,040+ villages in…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
6Partial evidenceNew Delhi, IndiaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026n/a955 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Praxis is a not–for–profit NGO specialising in participatory approaches to sustainable development.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
7Partial evidencePune, IndiaHQ checked Sep 21, 20261,001-5,000656 contacts →

Partial evidence

“SarvaGram is India’s first rural household-centric platform.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
8Indirect evidenceBengaluru, IndiaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026201-500639 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The/Nudge is an action institute working towards a poverty-free India, within our lifetime.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
9Partial evidenceChennai, IndiaHQ checked Sep 21, 20265,001-10,000606 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Hand in Hand India is a development organisation that works to alleviate poverty through a unique integrated community development approach.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
10Partial evidenceParegaon Live, IndiaHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200513 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Building world class tech product from villages, creating opportunities to farmer's kids, transforming village economy, empowerment of rural girls, producing ready to work…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
11Indirect evidenceNew Delhi, IndiaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026201-500485 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We're on a mission to transform stranded villages into flourishing communities with our multidimensional design solutions.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
12Indirect evidenceBangalore, IndiaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026201-500428 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“20 Years.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
13Partial evidenceKolkata, IndiaHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200379 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Bandhan-Konnagar is a developmental organisation that started its journey in the year 2001 with the twin objectives of women empowerment and poverty alleviation.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
14Partial evidenceNew Delhi, IndiaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026201-500378 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Drishtee is a social organisation working with rural communities in villages across India, we have an extensive presence in Assam, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar, with few initiatives…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
15Partial evidenceNew Delhi, IndiaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026501-1,000308 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Humana People to People India’s mission is to unite with people in India in order to create development in the broadest sense through the implementation of the projects that aim…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
16Indirect evidenceSaket, IndiaHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200301 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
17Partial evidenceBhopal, IndiaHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200278 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Founded in 1996 by a group of development professionals with considerable experience of working in community led natural resources development with the tribal community of central…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
18Strong evidenceKrishnagiri, IndiaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026501-1,000277 contacts →

Strong evidence

“DHAN Foundation is a pro poor development organisation, which is working on poverty allivation of indian rural poor in diffent context and also in different themes.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
19Strong evidenceHyderabad, IndiaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026501-1,000277 contacts →

Strong evidence

“The official account of NIRDPR, an autonomous organisation under the Ministry of Rural Development.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
20Strong evidenceBhubaneswar, IndiaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026201-500276 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Gram Vikas, literally meaning Village Development, is a not-for-profit, development organisation working in partnership with rural communities with the support of governments…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
21Partial evidenceWorli, IndiaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026201-500258 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Founded by Ronnie & Zarina Screwvala, we operate with a single-minded focus of empowering 1 million Rural Indians every 5 years.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
22Partial evidenceBangalore / Bengaluru, IndiaHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200230 contacts →

Partial evidence

“At Head Held High Foundation, our vision is to eradicate rural poverty globally, beginning in India.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
23Indirect evidenceDharwad, IndiaHQ checked Sep 21, 20261,001-5,000228 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank is a Public Sector Undertaking Scheduled Bank, Head Office at Dharwad, Karnataka, India.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
24Partial evidenceJamshedpur, IndiaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026201-500223 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Guided by vision of creating a promising and sustainable future for everyone, Collectives for Integrated Livelihood Initiatives (CInI) collaborates with the rural-tribal…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
25Indirect evidenceHyderabad, IndiaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026201-500214 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Watershed Support Services and Activities Network (WASSAN), Hyderabad is a network-based organization focusing on improving the quality of mainstream programs in natural resources…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026

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Rural development organizations based in India at a glance

As of Sep 21, 2026
10.8%Verified-email coverage
28.9Average contacts per company
11-50Median size (employees)
7.9%Largest-city concentration · New Delhi
Sep 21, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
481
11-50
478
51-200
290
201-500
119
501-1,000
31
1,001-5,000
31
5,001-10,000
4
10001+
9

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for India, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for India, over 1,452 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 rural 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 India whose own description of what they do matches “rural 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 rural 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 rural development organizations, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside India 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, 4,530 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
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Rural development organizations by metro

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 rural 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 rural development organizations are there based in India?

RevenueBase identified 1,452 rural development organizations headquartered in India 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?

Nabard, headquartered in Mumbai, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most rural development organizations?

New Delhi leads with 114 headquartered companies, followed by Delhi (47) and Pune (44).

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 4,530 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,452 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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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.