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Top 25 Social impact design firms based in San Francisco, United States
RevenueBase identified 119 social impact design firms headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 1,659 professional contacts across them, including 709 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers social impact design firms headquartered in San Francisco, 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 San Francisco, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 231 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Povio is a San Francisco based design and development company building digital products that create a positive impact.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 158 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Landscape is an integrated creative studio providing brand strategy, design systems, and campaign production to clients pursuing intentional, sustainable, and influential change…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 106 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We believe everyone deserves access to the benefits of good design.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1989, the globally recognized and award-winning strategic design firm Eight Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Daylight is a human-centered design company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 88 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “One of Fast Company's 2025 Best Workplaces for Innovators!* Third Plateau is an impact consultancy on a mission to build lasting social good.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We strive to elevate the human experience by designing places that connect, sustain, and inspire.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Formed in 1982, DBA is a progressive architecture firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area and Birmingham, Ala.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since the firm’s founding in San Francisco in 1988, MWA Architects has gained a national reputation for integrating urban design and community participation into housing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 60 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “IDEO.org is a nonprofit design studio on a mission to design a more just and inclusive world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “dsk architects is a full service design firm based in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Manual: Shaping and amplifying world-changing ideas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Fuseproject is an independent design and innovation partner to the ambitious leaders who make tomorrow today.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LEDDY MAYTUM STACY Architects (LMSA), located in San Francisco, is the 2017 National AIA Architecture Firm Award recipient and devoted to the creation of innovative…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “CMG is a mission-oriented studio working to increase social and ecological wellbeing through artful design.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are the physical choreographers behind serendipitous encounters, family outings and date nights in communities around America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SITELAB urban studio is a San Francisco-based strategic design firm focused on using research & visualization to create great places, through big plans and small interventions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “DC Design is a social impact consulting firm focused on addressing systemic inequities in Education, Healthcare, Housing, Criminal Justice, Housing, Employment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We established KUTH | RANIERI Architects in 1990.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CARD 79 gives form to future states by converging strategy, brand, and design.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ADG (Aesthetic Dimension Group) partners with the world’s leading companies and most ambitious startups to create sustainable growth through meaningful design & innovation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Public Architecture provides the network and knowledge necessary to leverage the design of the built environment as a tool for social gain.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Loczi Design is a full-service interior design studio creating thoughtfully curated homes throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are an independent design firm based in San Francisco; an experienced and passionate group of digital thinkers and creative makers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Urban Field Studio provides urban design services for early idea formation.” 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 San Francisco, 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 San Francisco, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for San Francisco, over 119 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 San Francisco, 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 San Francisco 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, 709 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 San Francisco, United States?
RevenueBase identified 119 social impact design firms headquartered in San Francisco, 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?
POVIO, headquartered in San Francisco, 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 709 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 119 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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