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.

Community Refugee and Immigration Services

Also known as CRIS.

4645 EXECUTIVE DR, COLUMBUS, OH 43220-3601

Community Refugee and Immigration Services is a nonprofit organization in Columbus, Ohio that serves immigrants and refugees.

CRIS is a Central Ohio refugee resettlement agency serving refugees and immigrants with reception and placement, case management, employment and ESL services, immigration legal representation, citizenship classes, health/wellness support, and interpretation.

Mission

Community refugee and immigration services, inc.'S mission is to help refugees and immigrants reach and sustain sufficiency and acheive successful integration into the central Ohio community through teaching, employment assistance, interpreting, refugee resettlement and legal services...

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Case management: “EACH REFUGEE ENROLLED IN THIS PROGRAM IS ASSIGNED A CASE MANAGER”
  • Citizenship: “CRIS hosts free weekly English and citizenship classes.”
  • Education / youth: “Our first goal is to help every New American graduate from high school. From there, we expose them to the possibility of secondary education”
  • Employment / job training: “CRIS Career Services offers a wide range of options to empower refugees and immigrants to gain employment, including skills-based instruction”
  • ESL / English: “English as a Second Language (ESL) classes”
  • Family reunification: “family-based sponsorship, adjustment of status, family reunification, asylum”
  • Interpretation / translation: “Spanish, French, and Dari interpreters will be available”
  • Legal / immigration: “CRIS has four full-time attorneys who assist clients with immigration legal services”
  • Refugee resettlement (R&P): “CRIS is a refugee resettlement agency”

Languages

Services delivered in Spanish, French, Dari.

Website offers an automatic translation widget only.

Communities served

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Service area: Central Ohio.

Federal recognition and registries

  • ORR refugee resettlement funding
  • ORR unaccompanied children program
  • State Department refugee resettlement affiliate (R&P)
  • USCIS citizenship program grant

Contact

Founded 1999. IRS NTEE code P84. Revenue $10M-49.99M. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 31-1674893.

Other organizations in Columbus

All organizations in Columbus | All organizations in Ohio

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).