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.

Lutheran Social Services of Northeast Florida

4615 PHILIPS HWY, JACKSONVILLE, FL 32207-7265

Lutheran Social Services of Northeast Florida is a nonprofit organization in Jacksonville, Florida that serves immigrants and refugees.

A faith-based Jacksonville nonprofit resettling refugees with housing, employment, case management and transportation while also providing food assistance, financial/career coaching, HIV wraparound medical and mental-health services, and youth mentoring and women's empowerment programs.

Mission

Lutheran social services of northeast Florida, inc. (LSS) was formed in 1979 by lutheran congregations located in northeast Florida as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit social ministry organization. The agency is led by a board of directors consisting of a maximum of 21 members, 51 percent of whom must be lutheran, according to bylaws, and 49 percent of whom are local business leaders. In 1999, LSS formed an affiliate, LSS property management, inc. (LPM) to own property as a taxexempt entity.

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Case management: “LSSNEFL established the ACE (Advocacy, Care & Education) Program to provide case management, mental health services and education for people living with HIV and AIDS.”
  • Education / youth: “Our Youth Mentors meet with mentees to work toward reaching personal, vocational, or academic goal(s).”
  • Employment / job training: “51 Program participants received workforce development training”
  • Financial literacy: “Steps 2 Success provides one-on-one financial and employment coaching to help you realize goals such as home ownership and starting a career.”
  • Food assistance: “NOURISHMENT NETWORK - A HUNGER RELIEF PROGRAM THAT PROVIDES FOOD AND NUTRITIONAL SERVICES TO LOW INCOME INDIVIDUALS LIVING IN THE JACKSONVILLE AREA.”
  • Health / medical: “OPENED A FULL SERVICE MEDICAL CLINIC WITH DENTAL SERVICES AND A COMMUNITY PHARMACY ON SITE.”
  • Housing: “530 ​ clients at risk of homelessness maintained stable housing”
  • Mental health: “LSSNEFL established the ACE (Advocacy, Care & Education) Program to provide case management, mental health services and education for people living with HIV and AIDS.”
  • Refugee resettlement (R&P): “RESETILES REFUGEES SENT TO LSS FROM THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT, BECAUSE THEIR LIVES WERE AT RISK IN THEIR HOMELAND DUE TO RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL PERSECUTION, BY FINDING THEM PLACES TO LIVE, HELPING THEM ADAPT TO THEIR...”
  • Transportation: “Be a Volunteer Driver: We need friendly faces to help newcomers to Jacksonville get to appointments around town.”

Languages

Services delivered in Spanish, Haitian Creole.

Website in English only.

Service area: Jacksonville, FL / Northeast Florida.

Federal recognition and registries

  • State Department refugee resettlement affiliate (R&P)

Contact

Founded 1980. Revenue $5M-9.99M. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 59-1965600.

Other organizations in Jacksonville

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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).