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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.
The 25 largest rural development organizations based in India
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 2,829 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,520 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,232 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,130 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,075 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 955 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Praxis is a not–for–profit NGO specialising in participatory approaches to sustainable development.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 656 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SarvaGram is India’s first rural household-centric platform.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 639 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The/Nudge is an action institute working towards a poverty-free India, within our lifetime.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 606 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 513 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 485 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 428 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “20 Years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 379 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 378 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 308 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 301 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 278 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 277 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 277 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The official account of NIRDPR, an autonomous organisation under the Ministry of Rural Development.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 276 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 258 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 230 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 228 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 223 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 214 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, 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: rural 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 rural development organizations.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of rural development organizations, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name rural 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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Rural development organizations based in India at a glance
As of Sep 21, 2026Companies by employee count
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
- 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.
Rural development organizations by metro
- Rural development organizations in New Delhi114
- Rural development organizations in Delhi47
- Rural development organizations in Pune44
- Rural development organizations in Hyderabad41
- Rural development organizations in Mumbai38
- Rural development organizations in Jaipur29
- Rural development organizations in Kolkata28
- Rural development organizations in Lucknow27
- Rural development organizations in Bengaluru25
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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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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