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.

Asian Americans for Equality

Also known as AAFE.

2 ALLEN ST 7, NEW YORK, NY 10002-5302

Asian Americans for Equality is a nonprofit organization in New York, New York that serves immigrants and refugees.

AAFE serves Asian American and other low-income immigrant communities in New York City with affordable housing, tenant and immigration counseling, citizenship and ESL classes, small business loans, benefits enrollment, food pantries, youth college access, and civic engagement/advocacy in Chinese, Spanish, and Korean.

Mission

To advance racial, social and economic justice for Asian americans and other systematically disadvantaged communities by creating affordable housing and economic opportunity, providing an array of multilingual community services and fostering grassroots leadership and civic engagement...

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Advocacy / policy: “PARTICIPATE IN OUR ADVOCACY CAMPAIGNS”
  • Benefits enrollment: “Access Government Benefits”
  • Case management: “tenant counseling, navigation services for government entitlement programs”
  • Citizenship: “Citizenship applications, ESL classes, legal resources”
  • Civic engagement: “AAFE WORKS TO REGISTER VOTERS”
  • Cultural programming: “MULTICULTURAL HOLIDAY CELEBRATIONS”
  • Economic development: “providing low-interest small business loans, training and counseling services”
  • Education / youth: “College & career counseling, leadership development, civic engagement”
  • Employment / job training: “access to workforce training and employment services”
  • ESL / English: “Citizenship applications, ESL classes, legal resources”
  • Financial literacy: “rental assistance, financial education, access to workforce training”
  • Food assistance: “MORE THAN 100 VOLUNTEERS HELP STAFF OUR FOOD PANTRIES”
  • Housing: “Housing rights, social services, immigration, youth programs”
  • Legal / immigration: “Immigration Services Citizenship applications, ESL classes, legal resources”

Languages

Services delivered in Chinese, Spanish, Korean, Cantonese.

Website in more than one language.

Communities served

Asian.

Service area: New York City (Manhattan, Queens).

Federal recognition and registries

  • HUD-approved housing counselling agency

Contact

Founded 1986. Revenue $10M-49.99M. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 13-3187792.

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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).