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

1300 SPRING STREET, SILVER SPRING, MD 20910-3616

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

HIAS is a Jewish humanitarian organization serving refugees, asylum seekers, and displaced immigrants (including torture and trafficking survivors) with pro bono immigration legal representation, clinical case management, mental health and economic-empowerment programs, family reunification, and refugee-rights advocacy.

Mission

HIAS is the international Jewish nonprofit that stands for a world in which refugees find welcome, safety, and opportunity.There have never been more people seeking safety and so few places willing to protect and welcome them. Over 100 million people are forcibly displaced in the world today. For over 100 years, HIAS has been there for refugees when and where they need help most. We are a Jewish humanitarian organization that works in the united states and in more than 20 other countries, providing vital services to refugees and vulnerable migrants so they can rebuild their lives.

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Advocacy / policy: “WE ADVOCATE FOR THE RIGHTS OF FORCIBLY DISPLACED PEOPLE AND LEAD THE JEWISH MOVEMENT FOR REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS”
  • Case management: “THIS INCLUDED CLINICAL CASE MANAGEMENT”
  • Economic development: “HELP REFUGEES LAUNCH OR EXPAND SMALL BUSINESSES”
  • Employment / job training: “PROVIDE TRAINING FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND UPWARD MOBILITY”
  • ESL / English: “DEVELOP ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY”
  • Family reunification: “keeping families united through reunification”
  • Interpretation / translation: “interpretation and translation”
  • Legal / immigration: “HIAS OFFERS PRO BONO LEGAL SERVICES TO REFUGEES, ASYLUM SEEKERS AND OTHER FORCIBLY DISPLACED PERSONS”
  • Mental health: “Support Mental Health”
  • Refugee resettlement (R&P): “THROUGH OUR NATIONAL RESETTLEMENT NETWORK OF 30 AFFILIATES”

Languages

Services delivered in Dari, Farsi, Pashto, Spanish.

Website offers an automatic translation widget only.

Federal recognition and registries

  • ORR refugee resettlement funding
  • ORR unaccompanied children program
  • On EOIR’s list of free legal service providers

Contact

Founded 1954. IRS NTEE code Q710. Revenue $50M+. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 13-5633307.

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).