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.

Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine

1342 CONGRESS ST, PORTLAND, ME 04102-2117

Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine is a nonprofit organization in Portland, Maine that serves immigrants and refugees.

A Jewish community organization in Southern Maine that, as a HIAS affiliate, resettles refugees (housing, employment, case management in their first months) while also running an essentials pantry/diaper bank, early childhood education, day camp, and cultural programming for the broader community.

Mission

To coordinate, promote, and support the Jewish philanthropic, benevolent, educational, and communal activities in Southern Maine.

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Case management: “Ahmed Hassan Urgent Case Manager”
  • Cultural programming: “The JCA offers diverse cultural, educational, and social opportunities for engagement with our community, through films, exhibits, music, book talks, adult-ed classes, children’s programming, informal clubs and...”
  • Education / youth: “The Goldman Family Preschool offers a warm, play-based early childhood program for ages 6 weeks to 5 years.”
  • Emergency / basic needs: “The purpose of our pantry is to support local families by providing essential household items that are not accessible via SNAP benefits and cannot be purchased without assistance.”
  • Employment / job training: “helping them to find housing and work”
  • Housing: “helping them to find housing and work”
  • Refugee resettlement (R&P): “the JCA is committed to bringing approximately 115 refugees over the next year, helping them to find housing and work, and connecting them with services here in Maine over their first three months here.”

Languages

Chinese.

Website in more than one language.

Communities served

Jewish.

Service area: Southern Maine.

Federal recognition and registries

  • State Department refugee resettlement affiliate (R&P)

Contact

Founded 2000. IRS NTEE code T700. Revenue $5M-9.99M. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 01-0530420.

Other organizations in Portland

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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).