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.

Catholic Charities Maine

Also known as Catholic Charities ME-Refugee & Immigration Services.

PO BOX 10660, PORTLAND, ME 04104-6060

Catholic Charities Maine is a nonprofit organization in Portland, Maine that serves immigrants and refugees.

Catholic Charities Maine's Refugee and Immigration Services resettles refugees and serves asylum seekers in Maine with housing, employment, food, emergency aid, and case management, alongside the agency's broader social services.

Mission

Catholic Charities Maine is one of the largest statewide, private, nonprofit, social service agencies in Maine and is committed to improving the quality of life for the individual, the family and the community. Catholic Charities Mission reads: "Inspired by scripture and the Church's social teaching, Catholic Charities empowers and strengthens individuals and families of all faiths by providing innovative community-based social services throughout Maine." It is this spiritual foundation that differentiates Catholic Charities from other social service agencies.

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Case management: “371 asylum seekers were provided case management services through our Asylum Seekers Transistional Housing Program”
  • Emergency / basic needs: “1,605 individuals found compassionate support and/or received emergency services”
  • Employment / job training: “701 refugees resettling in Maine received help finding housing, jobs, and referrals to available services”
  • Food assistance: “33,965 individuals and families in Aroostook County were provided with food assistance”
  • Housing: “701 refugees resettling in Maine received help finding housing, jobs, and referrals to available services”
  • Legal / immigration
  • Refugee resettlement (R&P): “As Maine’s longest-serving refugee resettlement program, Catholic Charities Maine’s Refugee and Immigration Services (RIS) has welcomed thousands of people fleeing war, poverty, and persecution.”

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Service area: statewide Maine.

Federal recognition and registries

  • DOJ-recognized immigration legal provider
  • ORR refugee resettlement funding
  • State Department refugee resettlement affiliate (R&P)

Contact

Founded 1967. IRS NTEE code P200. Revenue $10M-49.99M. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 01-0280225.

Other organizations in Portland

All organizations in Portland | All organizations in Maine

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).