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.

Fresno Interdenominational Refugee Ministries

Also known as Fresno Immigrant and Refugee Ministries, FIRM.

1940 N FRESNO ST, FRESNO, CA 93703-2231

Fresno Interdenominational Refugee Ministries is a nonprofit organization in Fresno, California that serves immigrants and refugees.

FIRM (Fresno Immigrant and Refugee Ministries) serves Southeast Asian, Slavic, Middle Eastern, Afghan, and African refugee families in Fresno with refugee resettlement, housing counseling, community health navigation, mental health support, citizenship prep, after-school education, and advocacy.

Mission

Building Communities of Hope with New Americans, Cultivating a Central Valley where we all belong. ALL PROGRAM SERVICES PROVIDED IN VARIOUS COUNTY AND PRIVATE PROGRAMS. TO WITNESS THE LOVE OF CHRIST BY INITIATING AND ENCOURAGING MINISTRIES WHICH RAISE AWARENES AND STRIVE TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE REFUGEE COMMUNITY; AND TO SERVE REFUGEES BY BUILDING BRIDGES OF FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN CULTURES. TO WITNESS THE LOVE OF CHRIST BY INITIATING AND ENCOURAGING MINISTRIES WHICH RAISE AWARENESS AND STRIVE TO MEET NEEDS OF THE REFUGEE COMMUNITY; AND TO SERVE REFUGEES BY BUILDING BRIDGES OF FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN CULTURES.

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Advocacy / policy: “We work hard to engage in community organizing efforts that build a strong team of community advocates from each people group we serve”
  • Case management: “FIRM offers a number of systems navigation support”
  • Citizenship: “citizenship, advocacy, community gardens, health navigation and policy work”
  • Civic engagement: “The event will bring prominent community leaders to speak on the importance of civic engagement for the Hmong community, and present Hmong language voter”
  • Cultural programming: “COMMUNITY CELEBRATIONS”
  • Education / youth: “an after-school program”
  • Health education: “Community Health Workers”
  • Housing: “HOUSING COUNSELING”
  • Interpretation / translation: “receive pertinent information in their own language and are assisted in navigating systems to access resources they may need.”
  • Mental health: “mental-health programs”
  • Refugee resettlement (R&P): “FIRM has resettled 523 refugees in partnership with the Ethiopian Community Development Council (ECDC) over the past two years.”

Languages

Services delivered in Hmong, Laotian, Arabic, Slavic, Ukrainian.

Website in English only.

Communities served

Hmong, Laotian, Slavic, Afghan, African, Syrian.

Federal recognition and registries

  • State Department refugee resettlement affiliate (R&P)
  • HUD-approved housing counselling agency

Contact

Founded 1997. IRS NTEE code X20Z. Revenue $4,342,240. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 77-0357297.

Other organizations in Fresno

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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).