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Top 25 Social impact design firms based in Chicago, United States
RevenueBase identified 110 social impact design firms headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 2,095 professional contacts across them, including 579 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers social impact design firms headquartered in Chicago, 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 22, 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 social impact design firms based in Chicago, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 398 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded and led by Jeanne Gang, Studio Gang is an architecture and urban design practice headquartered in Chicago with offices in New York, San Francisco, and Paris.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1996, LCM Architects is a 60-plus-person architecture firm and industry leader in ADA and FHA accessibility consulting that intentionally blends these specialties to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “JGMA is a progressive architecture and design practice committed to inter-disciplinary collaboration, active community involvement and the enrichment of peoples’ lives through…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Valerio Dewalt Train is a 40+ person national architectural and design practice with offices in Chicago, San Francisco, and Denver.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Good Design Created By Good People By listening to the needs of people, places, and the planet, Bailey Edward collaborates with communities to transform the built environment for…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Design Lives at KTGY.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ross Barney Architects is a Chicago-based architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture studio.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LBBA is a Chicago-based architectural practice established in 1987 that is distinguished by its community-based approach.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PALMA is an award-winning international architectural design team that specializes in high performance design.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Do Tank introduces a blend of visual thinking, human-centered design, business model innovation, and pace to supercharge innovation, strategic planning, and change management.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Change.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Muse Community + Design is a Chicago-based urban planning and public engagement firm that helps clients make inspired changes to improve their communities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We work collaboratively with our clients, neighbors and a variety of stakeholders to create and improve homes, retail spaces and offices that improve our neighborhoods and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our firm emphasizes context, resources, climate and technology to best serve the project, client and end-user.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Farr Associates is a firm of optimistic architects and urban designers passionate about cities, sustainability, and leadership.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Latent is a Chicago based architecture firm working at the intersection of design and community development to create social, economic and environmental impact.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ChiByDesign is a civic and social impact design firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Base 3 is a transformative urban development company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Inzovu is a design collective that brings together passionate problem solvers to tackle your hardest challenges.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are Designers, Architects, Artists and Makers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that designs and builds functional, beautiful, and meaningful public spaces in historically disinvested neighborhoods across Chicago.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hello, we’re SEEK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “COLLABO is a dynamic planning and urban design practice leading innovative and equitable neighborhood revitalization projects that generate positive results and improve the lives…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are The Luminary Collective (TLC) a social impact firm dedicated to improving people's lives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 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: social impact design 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 social impact design firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of social impact design firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name social impact design 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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Social impact design firms based in Chicago, United States at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Chicago, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Chicago, over 110 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 social impact design 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 Chicago, United States whose own description of what they do matches “social impact design 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 social impact design 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 social impact design firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Chicago 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, 579 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 22, 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.
Social impact design firms by metro in the United States
- Social impact design firms in New York261
- Social impact design firms in Los Angeles129
- Social impact design firms in San Francisco119
- Social impact design firms in Chicago110
- Social impact design firms in Washington78
- Social impact design firms in Boston76
- Social impact design firms in Seattle75
- Social impact design firms in Portland63
- Social impact design firms in Atlanta47
- Social impact design firms in Denver47
- Social impact design firms in Austin42
- Social impact design firms in Brooklyn34
- Social impact design firms in Minneapolis34
- Social impact design firms in Oakland31
- Social impact design firms in Philadelphia31
- Social impact design firms in San Diego30
- Social impact design firms in Detroit27
- Social impact design firms in Miami25
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 social impact design 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 social impact design firms are there based in Chicago, United States?
RevenueBase identified 110 social impact design firms headquartered in Chicago, 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?
Studio Gang, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most social impact design firms?
New York leads with 261 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (129) and San Francisco (119).
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 579 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 110 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 22, 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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