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.

Little Iron Mom

2209 PARRISH ST, CEDAR FALLS, IA 50613-4739

Little Iron Mom is a nonprofit organization in Cedar Falls, Iowa that serves immigrants and refugees.

Little Iron Mom's World Grace Project helps newly arrived refugees and immigrants in Iowa's Cedar Valley integrate through interpretation, case navigation, transitional housing, ELL classes, workforce and food assistance, and community advocacy.

Mission

WORLD GRACE PROJECT EMPOWERS INDIGENOUS LEADERS TO RESOURCE, DEVELOP AND INTEGRATE OUR REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES TOWARD SELF-SUFFICIENCE IN THE CEDAR VALLEY. COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROVIDES A SUPPORT NETWORK TO HELP NEWCOMERS FIND THEIR WAY TO VARIOUS COMMUNITY RESOURCES INCLUDING JOB AND WORKFORCE SUPPORT. OVER 200 REFUGEE/IMMIGRANT FAMILIES WERE SERVED IN 2023. NEWCOMERS WERE HELPED OVER 1,000 TIMES IN 2023 WITH INTERPRETATION, PAPERWORK, PHONE CALLS, MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS, HOUSING, WORKFORCE, AND SCHOOL REGISTRATION. OVER 250 COATS WERE ALSO DISTRIBUTED IN 2023.

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Advocacy / policy: “Collecting a voice of the refugee/immigrant community and helping that voice to be heard.”
  • Case management: “Connecting ethnic leaders to valuable resources in the Cedar Valley community leading to a wrap-around care model.”
  • Digital literacy: “USCIS account help - Digital Literacy”
  • Emergency / basic needs: “OVER 250 COATS WERE ALSO DISTRIBUTED IN 2023.”
  • Employment / job training: “THE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AND HYDROPONICS PROGRAM CREATES AN OPPORTUNITY FOR INDIVIDUALS TO LEARN ABOUT THE CNC AND PRODUCTION THROUGH AN ONLINE SOCIAL ENTERPRISE.”
  • ESL / English: “ELL & Culture Classes”
  • Housing: “THE ORGANIZATION ACQUIRED A 3-UNIT TRANSITION HOME AND HOUSED 47 INDIVIDUALS IN 2023.”
  • Interpretation / translation: “NEWCOMERS WERE HELPED OVER 1,000 TIMES IN 2023 WITH INTERPRETATION, PAPERWORK, PHONE CALLS, MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS, HOUSING, WORKFORCE, AND SCHOOL REGISTRATION.”

Languages

Services delivered in French, Haitian Creole, Swahili, Lingala, Spanish.

Website in more than one language.

Contact

Founded 2018. IRS NTEE code P46. Revenue $221,727. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 82-2214679.

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).