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.

Iowa Congolese Organization and Center for Healing

4300 BEAVER AVE, DES MOINES, IA 50310-3773

Iowa Congolese Organization and Center for Healing is a nonprofit organization in Des Moines, Iowa that serves immigrants and refugees.

ICOACH serves the Congolese refugee community of Central Iowa with after-school tutoring, meals, transportation, job skills training, interpretation, trauma/healing support, and advocacy.

Mission

Provide services to refugee families including after school care, meals, job skills training, and transportation...

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Advocacy / policy: “Advocating for policies and procedures that protect the rights of refugees.”
  • Cultural programming: “Congo De' Des Moines for an evening filled with culture, traditional dance, a Congolese dinner, and fundraising”
  • Education / youth: “ICOACH AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM PROVIDES TRANSPORTATION TO TUTORING SITES, NUTRITIOUS MEALS AT TUTORING SESSIONS, AND EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT TO OUR YOUTH.”
  • Employment / job training: “MEALS, JOB SKILLS TRAINING, AND TRANSPORTATION”
  • Interpretation / translation: “PROVIDE TRANSLATION SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS WITH LIMITED ENGLISH SPEAKERS IN PERSON OR BY TELEPHONE”
  • Mental health: “PROCESS TRAUMA CAUSED BY WAR, ABUSE AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. WORK THROUGH EMOTIONS AND RESPOND TO CULTURE SHOCK IN A POSITIVE WAY.”
  • Transportation: “ICOACH AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM PROVIDES TRANSPORTATION TO TUTORING SITES”

Website in English only.

Communities served

Congolese.

Service area: Polk, Dallas, Marshall, and Black Hawk counties, Iowa.

Contact

Founded 2018. IRS NTEE code P84. Revenue $100,000-499,999. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 82-4386292.

Other organizations in Des Moines

All organizations in Des Moines | All organizations in Iowa

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).