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.

Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project

Also known as ILAP.

489 CONGRESS ST STE 3, PORTLAND, ME 04101-3415

Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project is a nonprofit organization in Portland, Maine that serves immigrants and refugees.

ILAP serves low-income immigrants across Maine with immigration legal representation, community education/know-your-rights, and systemic policy advocacy.

Mission

The immigrant legal advocacy project helps low-income immigrants improve their legal status, and works for more just and humane laws and policies affecting immigrants...

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Advocacy / policy: “ILAP COLLABORATES WITH IMMIGRANT-LED GROUPS, PARTNERS IN MAINE'S IMMIGRANT JUSTICE MOVEMENT, AND REGIONAL AND NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS TO SAFEGUARD AND PROMOTE LEGAL PROTECTIONS FOR THE STATE'S IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES.”
  • Civic engagement: “Only U.S. citizens can vote or register to vote. This is true for all U.S. and State elections.”
  • Legal / immigration: “IN 2023, WE PROVIDED DIRECT LEGAL SERVICES TO 2,314 PEOPLE AND BENEFITED 1,852 OF THEIR HOUSEHOLD FAMILY MEMBERS”

Languages

Services delivered in French, Portuguese, Spanish, Lingala, Haitian Creole, Somali, Arabic.

Website in more than one language.

Service area: statewide Maine.

Federal recognition and registries

  • DOJ-recognized immigration legal provider
  • On EOIR’s list of free legal service providers

Contact

Founded 1993. IRS NTEE code I80. Revenue $1M-4.99M. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 22-3260883.

Other organizations in Portland

All organizations in Portland | All organizations in Maine

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).