Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026

Top 25 Women's empowerment nonprofits based in South Africa

Name: Women's empowerment nonprofits based in South Africa
Creator: RevenueBase
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 22, 2026 214 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 214 women's empowerment nonprofits headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 1,235 professional contacts across them, including 175 with verified work emails. Johannesburg is the largest hub.

This list covers women's empowerment nonprofits 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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 22, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

214Companies

1,235Contacts tracked

175Verified emails

Explore this list → Free signup · no credit card · 500 free credits

The 25 largest women's empowerment nonprofits based in South Africa

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 214 women's empowerment nonprofits based in South Africa, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 22, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to women's empowerment nonprofits: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Sonke Gender Justice	Strong evidence	Cape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	139 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Sonke Gender Justice is a women’s rights organisation committed to feminist principles using rights-based and gender-transformative approaches to achieve human rights and gender…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
2	Graça Machel Trust	Strong evidence	Johannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	103 contacts →
	Strong evidence “The Graça Machel Trust is a catalyst, working across the continent for positive change on three fronts: women’s rights, children’s rights, and governance and leadership.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
3	Girlcode Group	Partial evidence	Midrand, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	61 contacts →
	Partial evidence “GirlCode is a multi-award winning social enterprise aimed at empowering girls and women across the African continent through technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
4	Gender Links	Partial evidence	Johannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	60 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Gender Links (GL) is a Southern African organisation committed to a region in which women and men are able to participate equally in all aspects of public and private life in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
5	Seed Academy	Partial evidence	Strathavon, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	1-10	30 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Transforming entrepreneurship for a more inclusive future’ Born out of S.A.’s first ICT Accelerator, Seed Academy is driven to create a new narrative for entrepreneurship in South…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
6	Womandla Foundation	Partial evidence	Cape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	17 contacts →
	Partial evidence “We foster, educate, empower, and equip women and girls to reach their full potential through strategic partnerships with leading organizations and institutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
7	Tears Foundation	Indirect evidence	Sandton, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	17 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The TEARS Foundation has fronted the South African response to sexual violence since 2012.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
8	Mosaic Training Services And Healing Centre	Indirect evidence	Wynberg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	16 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “MOSAIC Training Service and Healing Centre is an African-feminist, community based, non-governmental organisation (NGO) founded in 1993.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
9	Mathmoms NPC	Strong evidence	Cape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	16 contacts →
	Strong evidence “MathMoms is a women's initiative powered by nurturing love that builds confident communities one maths empowered child at a time.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
10	Womin African Alliance	Partial evidence	Johannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	13 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Women along with their communities, organisations and movements across Africa do not stand by meekly as extractives corporations and governments try to take their land and natural…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
11	Africa Women Innovation & Entrepreneurship Forum Awief	Strong evidence	Cape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	1-10	12 contacts →
	Strong evidence “The Africa Women Innovation & Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) is a pan-African non-profit women’s economic empowerment organization that promotes and supports female innovation…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
12	Africa Ignite	Indirect evidence	Durban, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	1-10	11 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Our vision is a self-reliant Africa alight with energy and innovation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
13	People Opposing Women Abuse	Indirect evidence	Vosloorus, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	9 contacts →
	Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
14	The EYE Of Hope Community Development Organisation	Indirect evidence	Mamelodi, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	8 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The Eye of Hope is a community development organization that is registered with the Department of Social Development as NPO.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
15	The Dignity Campaign	Indirect evidence	Muizenberg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	1-10	7 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The Dignity Campaign exists to empower, educate, and equip young people and impact communities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
16	1000 Women 1 Voice	Partial evidence	Fish Hoek, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	1-10	6 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Since 2003 the Women Trust has been creating awareness, organizing safe spaces for women, and mobilizing resources to amplify the voices of women and girls in South Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
17	Standard Bank TOP Women	Strong evidence	Cape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	6 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Since 2003, Top Women has been South Africa’s leading gender empowerment brand; celebrating visionary organisations that prioritise gender empowerment as integral to their…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
18	Crowns	Partial evidence	Johannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	6 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Crowns is an inclusive global network dedicated to empowering women in their personal and professional lives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
19	Temo Foundation NPC	Strong evidence	Rustenburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	5 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Temo Foundation NPC is social enterprise that focuses on empowerment of women, youth and persons with disabilities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
20	YB Foundation	Indirect evidence	Eastern Cape, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	1-10	4 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We use education as a transformative tool to drive social change and promote social justice.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
21	JOE Slovo Foundation	Indirect evidence	Durban, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	1-10	3 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The Joe Slovo Foundation is a Public Benefit Organisation (PBO# 930055404) & Non-Profit Organisation (NPO# 170-380) registered in South Africa with a UK satellite office.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
22	National Movement Of Rural Women	Partial evidence	Johannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	2 contacts →
	Partial evidence “The NMRW is a non-profit, grassroots organisation founded in April 1990 by a network of 16 women across the then Transvaal region of South Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
23	Impact Drivers SA	Partial evidence	Sandton, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	1-10	2 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Impact Drivers is a youth-led, women-led organization based in Johannesburg, South Africa, working throughout the country and neighbouring countries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
24	Where Rainbows Meet	Indirect evidence	Cape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	1 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Founded in 2008, Where Rainbows Meet Training & Development Foundation is based in Vrygrond, a multi-cultural community of nearly and the oldest informal settlement (1900) in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
25	Pinglady Women In Technology	Partial evidence	City Of Tshwane, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	1-10	1 contacts →
	Partial evidence “PINGLADY is an innovation incubator that aims to empower, equip, mentor and uplift women entrepreneurs and professionals in the Technology Industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026

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: women's empowerment nonprofits. 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 women's empowerment nonprofits.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of women's empowerment nonprofits, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name women's empowerment nonprofits. 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.

Showing 25 of 214 women's empowerment nonprofits based in South Africa

See the full list, filter by size, metro and specialty, and get verified emails and direct dials for all 175 reachable decision-makers.

Free signup · no credit card

View the full list →

Women's empowerment nonprofits based in South Africa at a glance

As of Sep 22, 2026

14.2%Verified-email coverage

5.8Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

30.4%Largest-city concentration · Johannesburg

Sep 22, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

157

11-50

51-200

201-500

1,001-5,000

10001+

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 214 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 women's empowerment nonprofits, 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 “women's empowerment nonprofits”. 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 women's empowerment nonprofits), 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 women's empowerment nonprofits, 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, 175 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.

Women's empowerment nonprofits by metro

Women's empowerment nonprofits in Johannesburg65
Women's empowerment nonprofits in Cape Town32

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 women's empowerment nonprofits, 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 women's empowerment nonprofits are there based in South Africa?

RevenueBase identified 214 women's empowerment nonprofits 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?

Sonke Gender Justice, headquartered in Cape Town, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most women's empowerment nonprofits?

Johannesburg leads with 65 headquartered companies, followed by Cape Town (32) and Pretoria (8).

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 175 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 214 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.

Ready to reach these companies? Verified emails and direct dials for all 214 women's empowerment nonprofits based in South Africa. Start with a free account, no credit card.

Download this list →

Related lists

Women's empowerment nonprofits by geography

Browse the directory

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.