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Top 25 Social impact design firms based in New York, United States
RevenueBase identified 261 social impact design firms headquartered in New York, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 7,774 professional contacts across them, including 3,501 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers social impact design firms headquartered in New York, 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 New York, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,660 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “CannonDesign is a different kind of design firm, where architecture, strategy, experience, innovation and social good converge to create meaningful impact.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,083 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Perkins Eastman is a global design practice founded on the belief that design has the power to enhance people’s lives and safeguard the environment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 970 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “KPF is dedicated to transforming cities through impactful design, collaborating closely with the world’s most forward-thinking clients to create high performing, carefully crafted…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 232 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “TCC Group collaborates with leaders to solve complex social problems.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 211 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Handel Architects is a global practice focused on urban issues centered around density, sustainability, and the creation of vital urban environments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 198 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Internationally recognized as a design leader, G&A is on a pioneering mission to synthesize the physical and digital worlds in a way no other firm can.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 176 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Marvel is dedicated to shaping public space, designing for institutional growth, and expanding economic and creative opportunities for a wide range of clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 159 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Dattner Architects is a mission-driven and women-owned firm based in New York City proudly designing the region’s most essential projects.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 143 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We're a strategy consultancy, a creative agency and a social movement incubator.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 114 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1981, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) is a design studio whose practice spans the fields of architecture, urban design, installation art, multi-media performance…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SCAPE is a design-driven landscape architecture and urban design studio based in New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “WXY is an award-winning multi-disciplinary practice specializing in the realization of urban design, planning and architectural solutions in challenging contexts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Cactus combines the transformational power of a strategic consultancy with the creative output of a interdisciplinary design firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “kyu is a collective of independent firms, strategists, designers, behavioral scientists, brand builders, data specialists, urban planners, united by a belief that the world’s…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Changing Our World is a trusted social impact consulting firm that advises leading corporations and nonprofit organizations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Over the course of 40 years MAP has designed more than 100 residential developments comprising over homes throughout New York City and the surrounding area.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Stefan Al Architects is a design studio focused on sustainable architecture and urban design” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Recognized internationally for its successes in making thriving places, the award-winning design firm Cooper Robertson integrates architecture and urban design at many scales…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1996, Urban Architectural Initiatives, RA, P.C.(UAI) is a minority owned, vibrant and diverse group of professionals united around the idea that great architecture is…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 1979, we’ve been designing pioneering, culturally-informed places around the globe that work at the intersection of nature, landscape, and art.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “WRTHY is an award-winning social impact agency built to take on complex social and environmental issues and accelerate change.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Envision a future of complete synergy between Nature and humanity, where human-made and Nature-grown become indistinguishable.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MBB Architects is a distinguished women-owned architecture firm based in New York City.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “WORKac, founded by Amale Andraos and Dan Wood, was named the #1 design firm in the US by Architect Magazine and Firm of the Year by AIA NYS.” 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 New York, 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 New York, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for New York, over 261 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 New York, 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 New York 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, 3,501 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 New York, United States?
RevenueBase identified 261 social impact design firms headquartered in New York, 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?
Cannondesign, headquartered in New York, 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 3,501 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 261 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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