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Top 25 Social impact organizations based in South Africa
RevenueBase identified 109 social impact organizations headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 2,400 professional contacts across them, including 374 with verified work emails. Johannesburg is the largest hub.
This list covers social impact organizations headquartered in South Africa, 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 organizations based in South Africa
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 355 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Genesis Analytics has worked in more than 115 countries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 135 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Living Hope is a faith-based non-profit organization whose vision is to reach people for Christ, Bringing Hope and Breaking the Despair of poverty and disease.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 102 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Tshikululu Social Investments is the private sector's foremost provider of social investment solutions - from not-for-profit corporate social investment through to blended…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “A South African Impact Investor providing funding and end-to-end business support to high-growth businesses, early-stage founders and social enterprises focused on youth…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Progression was founded on the values of social entrepreneurship and the desire to influence transformation and effect positive and meaningful change in South African society.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Sea Monster builds Impact Games that drive business goals and social outcomes for global brands and organisations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ARCH is a social impact business that originates opportunities for the private & public sectors to create economic advancement for the communities in which they operate.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are primarily impact-focused and are committed to creating meaningful positive change in society through our work on social media.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We work with game-changing clients whose offerings benefit society.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a social development organisation driven by our ideal of levelling the playing field and creating an equitable society where all people are empowered to be active citizens…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We're a team of innovators, technologists and social impact enthusiasts rooted in Africa, dedicated to harnessing the power of technology to drive organizations and communities to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “LifeCo UnLtd SA is an impact business that invests in other impact enterprises to deliver social, environmental, economic and financial gains.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Simanye we are passionate about creating impact as well as driving profitable businesses – and we believe these things go hand in hand in our globalized world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Valcare is a nonprofit Impact Funding Platform that ensures that social efforts have an actual impact.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We pride ourselves in assisting businesses to drive sustainable growth through Impact Investing and helping NGOs carry out the phenomenal work they do to strengthen our…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We believe in the power of purpose.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Percept is a collective of like-minded, like-hearted people who come together to work collaboratively in service of a vision of a healthier and more resilient world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “A Social Impact PR agency dedicated to creating meaning and possibilities around the world through Insight, Strategy and Creativity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We connect impact companies with talent, tools and resources to accelerate their growth and scale.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Where Sustainable Impact Drives Progress.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Motopi Consulting is a 100% Black-owned boutique CSI, and Social Impact Marketing Consultancy (level 1 contributor).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Social impact.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Apoiamos organizações a fortalecerem os seus legados, mediante uma gestão estratégica e inovadora do impacto econômico e socioambiental.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vision RSM offers Research, Strategy and Management services that deliver valuable insights.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Why choose us?” 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 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 social impact organizations.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of social impact organizations, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name social impact 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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Social impact organizations based in South Africa at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for South Africa, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for South Africa, over 109 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 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 South Africa whose own description of what they do matches “social impact 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 social impact 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 social impact organizations, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside South Africa 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, 374 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 organizations by metro
- Social impact organizations in Johannesburg31
- Social impact organizations in Cape Town25
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 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 social impact organizations are there based in South Africa?
RevenueBase identified 109 social impact organizations headquartered in South Africa 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?
Genesis Analytics, headquartered in Johannesburg, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most social impact organizations?
Johannesburg leads with 31 headquartered companies, followed by Cape Town (25) and Pretoria (6).
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 374 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 109 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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