Kids Count Data Center

What Kids Count Data Center does

Kids Count Data Center is a nonprofit web-based data platform operated by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. Since 1990, it has served as a free public resource providing authoritative indicators on child, youth, and family well-being across all 50 U.S. states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The platform organizes data into six core topic areas — Demographics, Economic Well-Being, Education, Family and Community, Health, and Safety and Risky Behaviors — plus a seventh area covering Youth and Young Adults, with disaggregated views by demographic characteristics.

The product surface consists of three core offerings: the Data Center web portal (datacenter.aecf.org) for interactive, self-service data browsing; the annual KIDS COUNT Data Book, which ranks U.S. states on child well-being; and a suite of topic-organized indicators. The platform requires no login for basic access and supports newsletter subscription segmented by user role (advocate, educator, funder, elected official, media, etc.). Registered trademarks include KIDS COUNT® and the bilingual LA INFANCIA CUENTA™.

The business model is non-commercial: the Data Center is a philanthropic deliverable with no pricing, subscriptions, or paid tiers, funded entirely through the Annie E. Casey Foundation's endowment and grants. With 1-10 employees, the initiative operates as a fixed-cost public resource whose value is measured in policy influence, research citations, and advocacy utility rather than revenue. End users include federal, state, and local government officials, academic researchers, child welfare advocates, nonprofit service providers, and journalists nationwide.

Name

Kids Count Data Center

Legal name

Annie E. Casey Foundation

Website

https://kidscount.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

KIDS COUNT Data Center is a free, nonprofit web-based data platform operated by the Annie E. Casey Foundation that provides authoritative child well-being indicators across all U.S. states and territories, serving policymakers, researchers, advocates, educators, service providers, and media.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Child Welfare Data Analytics

NAICS

Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (5192)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Data Reporting & Outcomes Measurement for Regulators/QRIS (EDACAKAM)

akta.pro secondary industry

Assessment, Screening & Progress Monitoring Tools (0–5) (EDACANAI)

Keywords

• Child welfare data
• Social policy research
• Child well-being indicators
• Nonprofit data portal
• Demographic statistics

Headquarters

HQ city

Baltimore

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Public Data Service (Free): The KIDS COUNT Data Center is a free public resource operated by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. No revenue is generated directly from users accessing the data platform. The Foundation funds operations through its philanthropic endowment and grants.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

The KIDS COUNT Data Center is a free, web-based data portal operated by the Annie E. Casey Foundation that provides interactive access to trusted indicators on children, youth, and families across all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Data is organized into seven topic areas (Demographics, Economic Well-Being, Education, Family and Community, Health, Safety and Risky Behaviors, and Youth and Young Adults) and is complemented by the annual KIDS COUNT Data Book, which has ranked U.S. states on child well-being since 1990.

Product overview

Kids Count Data Center is a single unified data portal platform offered by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The core offering consists of the KIDS COUNT Data Center web portal (datacenter.aecf.org) providing interactive access to child well-being indicators, complemented by the annual KIDS COUNT Data Book publication. The Data Center organizes indicators across seven topic areas (Demographics, Economic Well-Being, Education, Family and Community, Health, Safety and Risky Behaviors, and Youth and Young Adults) accessible by U.S. state, territory, or national level. The Data Book serves as an annual summary report that ranks states using these same indicators.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• KIDS COUNT Data Center A web-based data portal providing trusted data on children, youth and families across the nation, states, and U.S. territories. Users can browse and analyze indicators by location (50 U.S. states, DC, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands), topic, and demographic characteristics without requiring registration.
• KIDS COUNT Data Book Annual publication since 1990 that ranks all 50 U.S. states on child well-being across four domains: economic well-being, education, health, and family and community. The Data Book complements the Data Center with comprehensive national and state-by-state analysis.
• Data Indicators by Topic

Quantifiable outcome

• Annual state rankings have informed policy discussions in all 50 states since 1990
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Annie E. Casey FoundationcoreOthersThe KIDS COUNT Data Center is a program operated directly by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a philanthropy focused on building brighter futures for children and families in the United States. The Foundation funds, develops, and maintains the Data Center as part of its core mission. The Data Center is fully integrated into the Foundation's website infrastructure (aecf.org/datacenter).

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Kidsdata.org (Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health): Kidsdata.org is a foundation-backed, free public data platform providing indicators on child well-being in California and the U.S., with topic organization, disaggregated data, and downloadable tools. It is the closest structural and functional peer to KIDS COUNT — both are nonprofit foundation data portals for child and family indicators.
• ChildTrends: ChildTrends is a nonprofit research organization that produces data, reports, and indicators on child and family well-being, with topical research areas closely mirroring KIDS COUNT's domains. It serves overlapping audiences — researchers, policymakers, and advocates — and competes for citation share in child welfare data.
• County Health Rankings & Roadmaps (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation): County Health Rankings is a foundation-backed public data platform providing county-level indicators and annual rankings on health factors and outcomes. It mirrors KIDS COUNT's foundational model — philanthropic foundation, free web platform, annual rankings publication, multi-topic indicators, and primary audience of policymakers and media.
• National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP): NCCP is a research initiative at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health producing data, policy briefs, and indicators on child poverty and family well-being. It overlaps with KIDS COUNT's economic well-being and family/community domains and serves a similar researcher and policymaker audience.
• Population Reference Bureau (PRB): PRB is a nonprofit that provides demographic data and analysis on U.S. and global population trends, including children and youth indicators. It overlaps with KIDS COUNT's demographic and family/community topic areas and serves policy and research audiences with comparable data products.
• Child Care Aware of America: Child Care Aware of America publishes data and reports on child care availability, affordability, and quality across U.S. states, overlapping with KIDS COUNT's family/community and economic well-being domains. It serves a similar advocate, policymaker, and researcher audience for child-focused data.

Broad incumbents

• Urban Institute: Urban Institute is a broad economic and social policy research organization that produces substantial work on child and family well-being, including data products. It overlaps with KIDS COUNT on economic well-being, health, and family indicators but covers a much wider policy portfolio beyond children.
• RAND Corporation: RAND is a broad policy research organization with significant work on children, families, education, and health. It competes for policy-research engagement and citation share with KIDS COUNT in adjacent topics but operates as a much larger, multi-topic research enterprise.
• Mathematica Policy Research: Mathematica conducts policy research and evaluation across education, family support, health, and human services — directly overlapping with KIDS COUNT's topic domains. It serves overlapping state and federal policymaker audiences but operates primarily as a contract research firm rather than a public data platform.
• Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics (ChildStats.gov): ChildStats.gov is a federal interagency initiative that publishes America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, providing federal data on child and family outcomes. It overlaps with KIDS COUNT's indicator-based approach but covers fewer states/territories and lacks the disaggregation and state-ranking framework of KIDS COUNT.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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