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Top 25 Social impact marketing agencies based in San Francisco, United States
RevenueBase identified 156 social impact marketing agencies headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 2,646 professional contacts across them, including 467 with verified work emails. Across the United States, New York is the largest hub for this category (791 companies); San Francisco has 156.
This list covers social impact marketing agencies 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 29, 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 marketing agencies based in San Francisco, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 782 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Formerly Essence, we are now EssenceMediacom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 209 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Note: Grand no longer exists.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We help category-defining brands make their mark through hard-working, creative campaigns that change perceptions and spark action.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “TRADEMARK is a global marketing agency that brings brands to life through extraordinary events.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A four-time Ad Age Small Agency of the Year, Duncan Channon is a full-service creative shop with a 360º offering including social, experiential and influencer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Media Cause is a mission-driven marketing and creative agency that helps nonprofits grow and accelerate their impact.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Manual: Shaping and amplifying world-changing ideas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fiercely independent, women-founded and led, from the beginning we have put human experience and connection at the center of every campaign.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Cutwater, we hone and sharpen a brand into something more distinctive so it has a better chance of cutting through, being heard, and standing apart.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Recognized as Ad Age's Small Agency of the Year, Manifold is a creative agency that creates extraordinary experiences, both digital and real world, to engage, delight, involve…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We're a creatively driven, strategically whip smart ad agency headquartered in San Francisco’s Presidio and Chicago.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Mortar, we don’t just create marketing-we deliver “A-ha” moments that make brands unforgettable.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mission Minded is a strategy and creative firm that helps good causes have greater impact.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “WE ARE NOT AD PEOPLE (although we do advertising).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Havas San Francisco is one of the fastest growing full-service agencies on the West Coast.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are one of the country’s top mission-driven communications firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Citizen is a pro-social marketing, design and brand management agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Underground* is a creative agency dedicated to serving change makers: clients making a positive difference in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Next Steps Marketing, we solve audience-building challenges in a creative and customized way.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We bring experiential marketing to life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A dynamic and collaborative marketing communications agency creating big ideas by telling powerful brand stories that inspire belief through unexpected thinking.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our mission is to build strategic, successful campaigns that reflect the communities around them, empower and strengthen leaders, and engage people in a meaningful way.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Flock is a creative agency that believes in the superpower of connection and that our collective power can take us much further than we can go alone.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Smart.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 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 marketing agencies. 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 marketing agencies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of social impact marketing agencies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name social impact marketing agencies. 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 marketing agencies based in San Francisco, United States at a glance
As of Sep 29, 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 156 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 marketing agencies, 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 marketing agencies”. 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 marketing agencies), 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 marketing agencies, 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, 467 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 29, 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 marketing agencies by metro in the United States
- Social impact marketing agencies in New York791
- Social impact marketing agencies in Los Angeles552
- Social impact marketing agencies in Chicago233
- Social impact marketing agencies in Atlanta215
- Social impact marketing agencies in Washington197
- Social impact marketing agencies in Miami192
- Social impact marketing agencies in Austin147
- Social impact marketing agencies in Denver135
- Social impact marketing agencies in Houston132
- Social impact marketing agencies in Dallas128
- Social impact marketing agencies in San Diego126
- Social impact marketing agencies in Portland114
- Social impact marketing agencies in Boston104
- Social impact marketing agencies in Seattle100
- Social impact marketing agencies in Minneapolis86
- Social impact marketing agencies in Brooklyn78
- Social impact marketing agencies in Nashville73
- Social impact marketing agencies in Charlotte72
- Social impact marketing agencies in Philadelphia71
- Social impact marketing agencies in Orlando70
- Social impact marketing agencies in Phoenix69
- Social impact marketing agencies in Las Vegas59
- Social impact marketing agencies in St. Louis56
- Social impact marketing agencies in Tampa55
- Social impact marketing agencies in Indianapolis54
- Social impact marketing agencies in Columbus46
- Social impact marketing agencies in Detroit46
- Social impact marketing agencies in San Antonio45
- Social impact marketing agencies in Kansas City43
- Social impact marketing agencies in Raleigh43
- Social impact marketing agencies in Cincinnati42
- Social impact marketing agencies in Pittsburgh40
- Social impact marketing agencies in Fort Lauderdale39
- Social impact marketing agencies in Cleveland38
- Social impact marketing agencies in Salt Lake City38
- Social impact marketing agencies in Jacksonville37
- Social impact marketing agencies in Milwaukee37
- Social impact marketing agencies in Richmond37
- Social impact marketing agencies in New Orleans34
- Social impact marketing agencies in Oakland33
- Social impact marketing agencies in Arlington32
- Social impact marketing agencies in Boulder32
- Social impact marketing agencies in Sacramento29
- Social impact marketing agencies in Santa Monica29
- Social impact marketing agencies in Scottsdale29
- Social impact marketing agencies in Irvine28
- Social impact marketing agencies in Louisville28
- Social impact marketing agencies in Rochester28
- Social impact marketing agencies in Wilmington28
- Social impact marketing agencies in Fort Worth26
- Social impact marketing agencies in Tulsa26
- Social impact marketing agencies in Greenville25
- Social impact marketing agencies in Madison25
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 marketing agencies, 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 marketing agencies are there based in San Francisco, United States?
RevenueBase identified 156 social impact marketing agencies 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?
Essence, headquartered in San Francisco, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city in the United States has the most social impact marketing agencies?
New York leads the United States with 791 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (552) and Chicago (233). San Francisco has 156.
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 467 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 156 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 29, 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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