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.

HIAS Economic Advancement Fund

1300 SPRING ST STE 500, SILVER SPRING, MD 20910-3634

HIAS Economic Advancement Fund is a nonprofit organization in Silver Spring, Maryland that serves immigrants and refugees.

HIAS Economic Advancement Fund provides refugee and forcibly displaced entrepreneurs with microenterprise loans, business technical assistance and training, and financial/credit education to launch or grow their businesses.

Mission

HIAS economic advancement fund, inc. (EAF) is a nonprofit corporation organized and operated exclusively the charitable purpose of supporting HIAS, inc., A nonprofit corporation (HIAS), recognized as a public charity and qualifying under section 501(c)(3) of the u.S. Internal revenue CODE of 1986, as amended (CODE). HIAS provides vital services to refugees and asylum seekers around the world and advocates for their fundamental rights so they can rebuild their lives. EAF is required under its governing documents to support HIAS in the pursuit of this tax-exempt mission.

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Economic development: “EAF PROVIDES MICROENTERPRISE LOANS AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO REFUGEES; THESE LOAN PRODUCTS ARE DESIGNED FOR ENTREPRENEURS WHO ARE JUST STARTING OUT IN BUSINESS”
  • Financial literacy: “We provide access to capital through affordable loans coupled with financial and credit education.”

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Service area: twelve metro areas across the U.S..

Contact

Founded 2024. IRS NTEE code S31. Revenue $500,000-999,999. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 88-0984307.

Other organizations in Silver Spring

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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).