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.

Gulfcoast Legal Services

501 1ST AVE N STE 420, ST PETERSBURG, FL 33701-3714

Gulfcoast Legal Services is a nonprofit organization in St. Petersburg, Florida that serves immigrants and refugees.

Gulfcoast Legal Services provides free civil legal aid—including immigration relief (T/U visas, VAWA, citizenship) for immigrant crime and trafficking victims, family law/domestic violence, housing, and financial stability services—to low-income residents of Florida's Gulf coast.

Mission

We champion justice by enhancing access to the legal system, especially for those whose race, ethnicity, income, age, disability, gender, or sexual orientation pose obstacles.

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Citizenship: “obtaining citizenship or documented status to assure their ability to live and work in the US”
  • Domestic violence services: “Legal Services for Families/Domestic Violence: The Family Law unit provided services to 931 clients”
  • Housing: “GLS provides legal assistance for a wide range of housing issues, including eviction and foreclosure defense”
  • Legal / immigration: “The Immigration & Human Rights unit provided assistance to 428 immigrant victims of crime with T and U visas”

Languages

Services delivered in Spanish.

Website in more than one language.

Service area: Gulf Coast Florida.

Federal recognition and registries

  • DOJ-recognized immigration legal provider
  • OVC trafficking victim services

Contact

Founded 1979. IRS NTEE code I80Z. Revenue $1M-4.99M. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 59-1882749.

Other organizations in St. Petersburg

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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).