Instituto Del Desarrollo De La Juventud

What Instituto Del Desarrollo De La Juventud does

Instituto del Desarrollo de la Juventud (IDJ) is a Puerto Rico-based nonprofit research and advocacy organization dedicated to studying the conditions of children, youth, and families, with a primary mission of reducing child poverty and promoting family economic mobility. It serves four primary constituencies: (i) children and youth aged 0-21 living in or near poverty (over 52% of the island's children per its own data); (ii) low-income families with children facing benefit cliffs and limited childcare access; (iii) local and federal policymakers who shape antipoverty policy; and (iv) government agencies and civil society organizations delivering social services. The organization positions itself as the only entity in Puerto Rico wholly dedicated to this mandate and is the official state ally for the Annie E. Casey Foundation's KIDS COUNT project.

IDJ's core product surface is a portfolio of free, public-facing data tools and research outputs rather than commercial software. The flagship is the Índice de Bienestar de la Niñez y Juventud — an annual diagnostic index of 27 indicators across five dimensions (economy, family, education, health, safety) covering all 78 Puerto Rico municipalities and benchmarked against all 50 U.S. states. This is paired with the Índice de Bienestar Municipal (interactive mapping of 17 indicators), the Puerto Rico Family Data Center (140+ supplementary indicators), the Kids Count Data Center, and a substantial publications library spanning benefit cliffs, childcare ecosystems, and poverty cost analysis. The complementary operational unit is the Laboratorio de Movilidad Económica de Puerto Rico (LabMovEPR), created in March 2022, which delivers technical assistance, program evaluation, and the 2Gen Community learning network to nine government agencies and partner organizations.

IDJ's business model is nonprofit philanthropy. All outputs — publications, data tools, policy recommendations, and technical assistance — are provided free of charge to the public, policymakers, and partner organizations. Revenue is not disclosed publicly, but the organization is funded through private philanthropy and grants from a roster of major U.S. foundations including the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Kresge Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies, and the Economic Opportunity Funders collaborative. Go-to-market is coalition- and advocacy-driven rather than sales-driven, emphasizing congressional briefings, Data Week conferences, the Advocacy Academy training program, and the Economic Security Alliance campaign (ReclamaTuDineroPR) executed jointly with Hispanic Federation and Espacios Abiertos.

Name

Instituto Del Desarrollo De La Juventud

Legal name

Instituto del Desarrollo de la Juventud, LLC

Website

https://juventudpr.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Instituto del Desarrollo de la Juventud (IDJ) is a Puerto Rico nonprofit research and advocacy organization that compiles child well-being data, conducts policy research, and runs LabMovEPR to reduce child poverty and promote family economic mobility.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Nonprofit Policy Research and Advocacy

NAICS

Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (54172), Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (813)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Child Protection & Child Rights (BPAGABAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Monitoring, Evaluation, Research & Learning (MERL) (BPAGABAO), Health Equity, Access & Social Determinants Programs (BPAIAJAO)

Keywords

• Child welfare research
• Policy advocacy
• Economic mobility
• Data analytics
• Nonprofit research

Headquarters

HQ city

San Juan

HQ country

Puerto Rico

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

Instituto del Desarrollo de la Juventud is a Puerto Rico nonprofit research and policy advocacy organization that compiles and disseminates data on the well-being of children, youth, and families; conducts original research on child poverty and economic mobility; advocates for evidence-based public policy (including Law 84-2021 and Child Tax Credit extension); and provides technical assistance and program evaluation to government agencies through its Economic Mobility Laboratory (LabMovEPR). All outputs are provided free of charge to the public, policymakers, and partner organizations, funded by philanthropic foundations.

Product overview

The Instituto del Desarrollo de la Juventud (IDJ) is a research and advocacy organization (not a technology product company) that operates a portfolio of data products and research services focused on child welfare and economic mobility in Puerto Rico. Its core offerings include the Índice de Bienestar de la Niñez y Juventud (Child and Youth Well-being Index) with 27 indicators, the Índice de Bienestar Municipal for 78 municipalities, the Puerto Rico Family Data Center, and the Kids Count Data Center—all data and visualization tools. The organization also operates the Laboratorio de Movilidad Económica (LabMovEPR) for program evaluation and technical assistance, and runs advocacy campaigns including ReclamaTuDineroPR to help families access Child Tax Credit benefits. These products are research/data-focused services rather than software technology products.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Laboratorio de Movilidad Económica de Puerto Rico (LabMovEPR): A laboratory focused on evidence-based solutions to promote economic mobility of families in Puerto Rico, providing program evaluation, training, knowledge compilation, and technical assistance to government agencies and organizations.

Products and services

• Índice de Bienestar de la Niñez y Juventud de Puerto Rico (Child and Youth Well-Being Index) An annual diagnostic index composed of 27 indicators across five fundamental dimensions (economy, family, education, health, and safety) that provides a comprehensive assessment of conditions for children and youth aged 0-21 in Puerto Rico, enabling comparison with 50 US states and Washington DC. Published annually to track well-being trends over more than 10 years.
• Índice de Bienestar Municipal (Municipal Well-Being Index) A data tool featuring an interactive map that establishes comparisons between Puerto Rico and its 78 municipalities across 17 of 27 available indicators from the main Child and Youth Well-Being Index. Enables municipal-level analysis of child and youth well-being conditions.
• Kids Count Data Center A project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation that makes available statistics on family, poverty, health, and education across 50 states, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico, featuring visualization maps, graphs, and trend data on over 100 indicators. IDJ serves as the state ally maintaining the Puerto Rico component.
• Puerto Rico Family Data Center (Centro de Datos de Familias) An interactive data tool that centralizes and analyzes data on the living conditions of children, youth, and their families across Puerto Rico's 78 municipalities, incorporating over 140 supplementary indicators. Developed to support evidence-based policy decisions by IDJ.
• Estadísticas Suplementarias (Supplementary Statistics) A supplementary statistics area containing over 140 indicators related to economy, family, education, health, and safety for children, youth, and their families, enabling municipal-level comparisons across Puerto Rico's 78 municipalities.
• Laboratorio de Movilidad Económica de Puerto Rico (LabMovEPR) An economic mobility laboratory providing evidence-based solutions, program evaluation, and technical assistance to government agencies and service organizations. Focus areas include 2Gen (bigenerational) models, workforce development, social protection system reform, and formative work experience initiatives. The 2Gen Community learning network includes 9 government agencies.
• Abogacía (Policy Advocacy Services) Policy advocacy services focused on promoting public policies that reduce child poverty, advance economic mobility, and create quality jobs for families with children in Puerto Rico. Includes advocacy priorities such as Child Tax Credit implementation, Law 84 compliance, benefit cliff reforms, and congressional testimony.
• ReclamaTuDineroPR / AlivioParaTuBolsillo.com Campaign A comprehensive portal campaign to promote Child Tax Credit (CTC) and Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), providing eligibility information, required documents, and access to free tax preparation services across 17 centers throughout Puerto Rico. Integrated with Code for America's GetCTC.org application.
• Research Publications Extensive collection of research reports, data books, fact sheets, executive summaries, and policy recommendations on topics including child poverty costs, benefit cliff studies, economic mobility barriers, childcare ecosystem analyses, bigenerational models, and food insecurity in Puerto Rico. Available in Spanish and English.

Quantifiable outcome

• 52% of children (248,127) live in poverty in Puerto Rico (2026 Index)
• +8 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core, secondary and minor.

• Annie E. Casey FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIDJ serves as the official state ally for the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Kids Count project, which tracks child well-being data across all 50 U.S. states, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico. The partnership involves publishing the annual KIDS COUNT Data Book, maintaining the Kids Count Data Center for Puerto Rico, and collaborating on congressional briefings and policy advocacy. The Foundation's support also includes direct endorsement of IDJ's advocacy mission.
• Hispanic FederationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHispanic Federation collaborates with IDJ as part of the Economic Security Alliance (Alianza para la Seguridad Económica), co-hosting congressional briefings, coordinating the ReclamaTuDineroPR campaign for Child Tax Credit promotion, and providing grant funding. The organization serves as custodian of restricted funds for the alliance and focuses outreach efforts on areas with high child poverty concentrations.
• Espacios AbiertoscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEspacios Abiertos is a key partner in the Economic Security Alliance with IDJ and Hispanic Federation, focused on promoting the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit in Puerto Rico. The organization estimates EITC eligibility and economic impact, develops policy analysis, and co-created the AlivioParaTuBolsillo.com and ReclamatudineroPR.com portals for public outreach.
• Vimenti (Boys & Girls Clubs de Puerto Rico)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerVimenti (operated by Boys and Girls Clubs de Puerto Rico) collaborates with IDJ's LabMovEPR on bigenerational model evaluation and the 2Gen Community learning network. Vimenti is the site for the bigenerational school model that IDJ evaluates and provides technical assistance on. IDJ also collaborated with Vimenti on the Advocacy Academy 2022, with Vimenti's communications director serving as a workshop resource.
• Universidad de Puerto Rico (Recintos de Río Piedras y Mayagüez)secondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerUPR Recintos de Río Piedras y Mayagüez collaborate with IDJ's LabMovEPR as academic partners, contributing research expertise and knowledge exchange to identify best practices for family economic mobility programs in Puerto Rico.
• Universidad Interamericana de Puerto RicosecondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner academic institution collaborating with LabMovEPR on research and knowledge development for programs that promote family economic mobility in Puerto Rico.
• Laboratorio de Estudios Económicos y Sociales de Guadalajara, MéxicosecondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational academic collaboration with the Economic and Social Studies Laboratory of Guadalajara, Mexico, contributing expertise on mobility economics and social protection systems relevant to IDJ's LabMovEPR programs.
• DDB Latina Puerto RicominorGTM or Marketing PartnerDDB Latina Puerto Rico serves as the creative and media execution partner for the Economic Security Alliance's CTC and EITC campaign, developing advertisements and media placements across TV, radio, press, and social media platforms in Puerto Rico.
• ADSEF (Administración de Desarrollo Socioeducativo y Familiar)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerADSEF collaborates with IDJ on the demonstration projects 'El Poder del Saber' and 'Puente al Progreso,' focused on redesigning the interaction between employment and public benefits to reduce benefit cliffs and support economic mobility for families in Puerto Rico.
• United Way de Puerto Rico (2-1-1)secondaryGTM or Marketing PartnerUnited Way de Puerto Rico's 2-1-1 community service hotline is used as a referral channel for the ReclamaTuDineroPR campaign, providing orientation on CTC and EITC applications to families without internet access.
• Code for America (GetCTC.org)secondaryTechnology or IntegrationCode for America's GetCTC.org/es application, developed for the IRS, is integrated into the ReclamaTuDineroPR.com portal as the user-friendly tool enabling Puerto Rico residents to apply for the Child Tax Credit from their phone or computer.

Scale indicators16 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• First Focus on Children: Bipartisan advocacy organization dedicated to making children a national policy priority. Comparable in connecting child well-being data to federal policy advocacy and congressional engagement.
• Voices for Utah Children: State-level KIDS COUNT ally and child welfare research/advocacy organization operating in Utah. Highly analogous as a state-ally nonprofit within the Annie E. Casey KIDS COUNT network — same federal model and similar data-plus-advocacy portfolio.
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: National policy think tank analyzing federal and state budget/tax policy effects on low-income populations. Strong peer for IDJ's evidence-based analysis of CTC, EITC, and social protection programs in Puerto Rico.
• National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP): Columbia University-affiliated research and policy organization focused on promoting economic security for low-income families and children. Directly comparable as a child poverty research, policy analysis, and advocacy nonprofit similar to IDJ's core mission.
• Maine Children's Alliance: Maine's KIDS COUNT state partner producing child well-being data and policy advocacy. Closely mirrors IDJ's role in Puerto Rico as the state/territory Kids Count ally, with comparable indicator dashboards and policy engagement.
• CLASP (Center for Law and Social Policy): National policy organization focused on advancing economic security for low-income families through research, policy analysis, and advocacy. Highly comparable to IDJ's data-plus-advocacy approach targeting benefit cliff, tax credits, and family economic mobility.
• Child Trends: Nonprofit research organization producing rigorous evidence on child and youth well-being, with comparable indicator-based indices and policy dissemination. Closely analogous in research methodology, data product orientation, and child welfare focus.

Broad incumbents

• Children's Defense Fund: Large national child welfare advocacy organization with broader scope (education, health, juvenile justice) than IDJ. Operates in similar policy advocacy terrain and uses comparable research-plus-advocacy model.
• Urban Institute: Major economic and social policy research organization that conducts research on child and family well-being, poverty, and social programs. Comparable data-driven policy analysis capability at much larger scale.
• Mathematica Policy Research: Large social policy research firm providing program evaluation and technical assistance to government agencies. Comparable to LabMovEPR's evidence-based program evaluation work at substantially greater scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

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