Equity and Equality

What Equity and Equality does

The Annie E. Casey Foundation is a private philanthropy established in 1948 by Jim Casey, founder of UPS, and his siblings George, Harry, and Marguerite to honor their mother. Headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland since 1994, the Foundation operates with approximately $3.7 billion in assets as of the end of 2025 and a staff of roughly 200 dedicated personnel. Its mission is to improve outcomes for children, youth, and families — particularly those affected by poverty, child welfare involvement, or juvenile justice exposure — through grant-making, research, policy advocacy, and direct technical assistance rather than through the sale of products or services.

The Foundation delivers its work through ten interconnected program areas: Child Welfare, Community Change, Economic Opportunity, Evidence-Based Practice, Expanding Opportunity for All, Impact Investments, Juvenile Justice, KIDS COUNT, Leadership Development, and Research and Evidence. It does not develop proprietary technology products; its principal infrastructure assets are the KIDS COUNT Data Center (a public data platform tracking hundreds of child well-being indicators) and JusticeLink (an online community of more than 1,000 youth justice reformers). Signature platforms include the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI), now implemented in more than 250 U.S. counties, and the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative, active in 15 states.

The Foundation makes grants to federal agencies, states, counties, cities, neighborhoods, and nonprofit organizations; it partners with more than 700 grantees and supports state-based KIDS COUNT advocacy organizations. Revenue is generated through investment returns on its endowment, with an Impact Investments program deploying endowment dollars for both financial returns and social outcomes. The Foundation is linked historically to Casey Family Programs (established 1966) and Marguerite Casey Foundation (established 2001), both independent organizations sharing Jim Casey's philanthropic legacy.

Name

Equity and Equality

Legal name

The Annie E. Casey Foundation

Website

https://aecf.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1948

Operating status

Operating

Short description

The Annie E. Casey Foundation is a private philanthropy that makes grants, conducts research, and advocates for policy reform to improve outcomes for children, youth, and families across the United States, operating with approximately $3.7 billion in assets from its Baltimore headquarters.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Private Philanthropy / Child Welfare Foundation

NAICS

Grantmaking and Giving Services (81321), Child and Youth Services (624110), Social Advocacy Organizations (8133)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAGAKAN

Social Justice & Human Rights Grantmaking Foundations

Business & Public Services/Nonprofit, NGO & Social Services/Philanthropy, Foundations & Grantmaking

SECONDARYBPAGABAG

Child Protection & Child Rights

Business & Public Services/Nonprofit, NGO & Social Services/International Development & Poverty Alleviation

SECONDARYEDADAIAH

Equity, Inclusion & Civil Rights Reporting (Disparities, Access, Outcomes)

Education/Education Administration, Accreditation & Policy/Education Data, Reporting & Accountability Systems

SECONDARYEDADALAF

Education Partnerships for Equity, Inclusion & Gender

Education/Education Administration, Accreditation & Policy/Education Partnerships, Intergovernmental & NGO Programs

Keywords

• Philanthropy grant-making
• Child welfare programs
• Juvenile justice reform
• Impact investing
• Policy advocacy research

Headquarters

HQ city

Baltimore

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Endowment Investment Returns: The foundation operates with assets of approximately $3.7 billion at the end of 2025, generated through investment of its endowment. The Impact Investments program uses the Foundation's endowment dollars to generate financial returns and support investment strategies.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Equity and Equality is a private philanthropy that makes grants, conducts research, and advocates for policy reforms to improve outcomes for children, youth, and families across the United States. It works through ten interconnected strategy areas spanning child welfare, juvenile justice, economic opportunity, community change, and evidence-based practice, partnering with more than 700 grantees to advance evidence-based solutions. It also deploys endowment capital through an Impact Investments program to generate financial returns alongside measurable social impact.

Product overview

The Annie E. Casey Foundation is a private philanthropy organization (not a technology product company) organized as a platform of program areas focused on improving outcomes for children, youth and families. The foundation operates through ten interconnected strategy areas: Child Welfare, Community Change, Economic Opportunity, Evidence-Based Practice, Expanding Opportunity for All, Impact Investments, Juvenile Justice, KIDS COUNT, Leadership Development, and Research and Evidence. These programs work together to strengthen families, build stronger communities and ensure access to opportunity. Key tools include the KIDS COUNT Data Center (a data platform tracking child well-being indicators) and JusticeLink (an online community for youth justice reformers). The foundation makes grants to federal agencies, states, counties, cities and neighborhoods rather than selling technology products.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• KIDS COUNT: A signature resource of the Annie E. Casey Foundation tracking the well-being of children over time and across states, providing data and policy recommendations for child advocates and policymakers.
• Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI)
• Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative
• Evidence2Success
• Thrive by 25
• The Nia Building at Pittsburgh Yards
• Thriving Families, Safer Children
• Pittsburgh Yards

Products and services

• Child Welfare

Quantifiable outcome

• Participating JDAI sites have reduced their daily detention populations by 43% since joining the initiative while maintaining or improving public safety
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

No

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Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Ignite CapitalminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 January 2015Ignite Capital is a fund supported by the Foundation that invests in companies founded by entrepreneurs of color. This is part of the foundation's Impact Investments program to advance economic equity.
• Providence Children and Youth CabinetcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2012In 2012, Casey selected Providence, Rhode Island, and the Providence Children and Youth Cabinet to implement and improve the Evidence2Success platform before making it available in additional sites.
• Casey Family ProgramscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2001Casey Family Programs is a related organization established by Jim Casey in 1966 in Seattle to provide and improve - and ultimately prevent the need for - foster care. In 2001, Casey Family Programs and the Annie E. Casey Foundation launched the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative to help youth transitioning from foster care. The Jim Casey Initiative became part of the Casey Foundation in 2015.
• Marguerite Casey FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2001Founded in 2001 to honor Marguerite Casey (Jim Casey's sister), this separate foundation works to realize a country in which government prioritizes the needs of excluded and underrepresented people, families and communities. Both foundations share a common heritage and vision of Jim Casey.
• Blueprints for Healthy Youth DevelopmentcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCasey supports the Blueprints programs database to identify cost-effective and proven programs for youth development. In the past 30 years, researchers have identified programs with positive impact on kids and families through this resource.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Children's Defense Fund: National child advocacy organization focused on child poverty, education, and juvenile justice policy - a leading voice in overlapping thematic areas where AECF funds and advocates.

Direct peers

• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Major private foundation driving evidence-based system reform across health and family well-being - comparable in operating model (grantmaking + research + policy) and orientation toward vulnerable children and families.
• Ford Foundation: A large U.S. private foundation with similar scope (~$16B in assets), grant-making, research, and advocacy across equity themes; comparable funding model and operating geographies to Annie E. Casey Foundation.
• MacArthur Foundation: Large U.S. private foundation (~$8B in assets) with comparable grantmaking-plus-policy-advocacy model, including substantial work on equity and child/youth opportunity via its equity-focused giving.
• Casey Family Programs: Independent sister philanthropy founded by Jim Casey in 1966 focused specifically on foster care and child welfare; shares Jim Casey legacy and historical operational links to the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
• William and Flora Hewlett Foundation: Large family foundation making long-horizon grants across equity, education, and economic opportunity - similar endowment-driven funding model and strategy architecture to AECF.
• W.K. Kellogg Foundation: Private foundation explicitly focused on children, families, and racial equity with grantmaking, community change, and impact investments - the closest thematic peer to AECF.
• Marguerite Casey Foundation: Independent sister foundation founded in 2001 in honor of Jim Casey's sister; shares common heritage and operates an aligned equity-focused grantmaking model targeting excluded communities.

Broad incumbents

• Doris Duke Charitable Foundation: Major U.S. private foundation with multi-sector grantmaking - a useful peer for endowment scale and permanence, though thematic focus (arts, environment, medical research) differs from AECF.
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: The largest U.S. private philanthropy - operates a comparable model (endowment-driven grantmaking, research, policy advocacy) but at materially greater scale and broader thematic scope than Annie E. Casey Foundation.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/AnnieECaseyFound
• Facebookfacebook.com/AnnieECaseyFndn
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/annie-e.-casey-foundation
• Instagraminstagram.com/annieecaseyfdn

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Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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