Immigrant Support Atlas

Foreign-born share over time

How the immigrant share of the population shifts across the country. Press play to animate. Source: US Census ACS 5-year.

Access to immigrant-serving organizations

Spatial access by the enhanced two-step floating catchment area method (E2SFCA). Darker green = better access; orange = a service desert (people who need it, but no organization within reach); gray = no foreign-born population. Source: org locations + US Census ACS 2023.

Immigrant Policy Inclusion Index

How inclusive each state’s policies are toward immigrants, across seven domains: health coverage, language access, higher education, identification, integration & licensure, legal protection, and economic inclusion. Darker green = more inclusive; orange/red = more restrictive or limited. Click any state for its full profile.

Immigrant–Native Disparity Index

Standardized gaps between foreign-born and US-born residents (uninsured, crowded housing, rent burden, education, home internet, vehicle access, homeownership) from US Census ACS. Green = smaller gaps; red = larger gaps. This is an outcome measure, separate from the Policy map: it describes how immigrant and US-born residents differ, and is shaped by who has immigrated where (recency and composition), not by state policy alone. Click any state for its full profile.

English assimilationism

Project Implicit is a self-selected volunteer sample, not a representative survey; within each area, respondents are reweighted to the Census population by age, sex, race and ethnicity, and citizenship. Higher = less welcoming. Areas with too few respondents are left blank. See the note below for the exact survey item. Source: Project Implicit 2023-2025.

Immigrant attitudes

Project Implicit is a self-selected volunteer sample, not a representative survey; within each area, respondents are reweighted to the Census population by age, sex, race and ethnicity, and citizenship. Higher = less welcoming. Areas with too few respondents are left blank. See the note below for the exact survey item. Source: Project Implicit 2023-2025.

As It Should Be

PO BOX 47773, JACKSONVILLE, FL 32247-7773

As It Should Be is a nonprofit organization in Jacksonville, Florida that serves immigrants and refugees.

A faith-based refugee resettlement agency in Jacksonville, FL that provides newly arrived refugees with first-90-day reception and placement including housing, employment placement, benefits enrollment, transportation, and basic-needs support.

Mission

The organization is a faith-based refugee resettlement organization, and works with beyond90, a humanitarian 501(c)(3) organization that bridges the gap to self-sufficiency by providing ongoing services after resettlement cases close, to together provide a seamless transition and continuum of care to help refugees rebuild new lives in the northeast Florida community...

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Benefits enrollment: “assist refugees with SNAP, Medicaid, many household management topics”
  • Case management: “HELP WITH MATTERS SUCH AS FINDING HOUSING AND MEDICAL CARE, ENROLLING CHILDREN IN SCHOOL, ETC.”
  • Employment / job training: “AISB IS RESPONSIBLE FOR BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS WITH LOCAL EMPLOYERS AND FINDING JOBS FOR AISB CLIENTS.”
  • Housing: “HELP WITH MATTERS SUCH AS FINDING HOUSING”
  • Refugee resettlement (R&P): “RECEPTION & PLACEMENT. A FEDERAL PROGRAM ADMINISTERED BY THE BUREAU OF POPULATION, REFUGEES AND MIGRATION”
  • Transportation: “Client transportation to appointments”

Website in English only.

Federal recognition and registries

  • State Department refugee resettlement affiliate (R&P)

Contact

Founded 2017. IRS NTEE code P20. Revenue $500,000-999,999. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 36-4863362.

Other organizations in Jacksonville

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Sources: IRS exempt-organization records, Form 990 filings, federal and network directories, and the organization's own website. Data as of October 19, 2026. Information here can change; contact the organization to confirm.

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Immigrant profiles by origin, language, and race / ethnicity

Pick a group to see its own profile: how large it is and how it lives, with the all-foreign-born and US-born averages shown for context. National estimates from US Census ACS 1-year microdata (PUMS).