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.

Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community

Also known as CBCAC.

230 W CERMAK RD FL 2, CHICAGO, IL 60616-5013

Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community is a nonprofit organization in Chicago, Illinois that serves immigrants and refugees.

CBCAC serves the Chinese American community of Greater Chicago (Chinatown) primarily through civic engagement, voter education, policy advocacy, youth civic-leadership training, small-business support, and digital literacy programming.

Mission

The coalition for a better Chinese American community (CBCAC) unites the resources of member organizations and indivdual members to empower Chinese American communities in greater chicago.

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Advocacy / policy: “head to Springfield to advocate for legislations like the TEAACH Act and the Language Accessibility and Equity bill”
  • Civic engagement: “THE ORGANIZATION HAVE REGISTERED THOUSANDS OF NEW VOTERS SINCE 2008”
  • Digital literacy: “expanding small business support and digital literacy programming”
  • Economic development: “20+ small businesses supported through our incubator”
  • Emergency / basic needs: “EMBERGENCY RENTAL APPLICATION ASSISTANCE”
  • Cultural programming

Languages

Services delivered in Cantonese, Mandarin.

Website in more than one language.

Communities served

Chinese.

Service area: Greater Chicago / Chinatown Chicago.

Contact

Founded 2017. Revenue $1M-4.99M. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 81-4209494.

Other organizations in Chicago

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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).