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.

Mercyfirst

525 CONVENT RD, SYOSSET, NY 11791-3868

Mercyfirst is a nonprofit organization in Syosset, New York that serves immigrants and refugees.

MercyFirst is a NY child-welfare agency that provides short-term residential shelter, case management, health, mental health and educational services to unaccompanied migrant/refugee children, and home study/post-release services to reunify them with sponsor families.

Mission

Mercy first, a sponsored ministry of the sisters of mercy, inspires hope and promotes healing for children and families by providing quality human services and educational opportunities while advocating for social change...

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Case management: “Case Management”
  • Education / youth: “Educational Evaluations and Services”
  • Family reunification: “goal of providing each child premanency via reunification with a birth parent or adoption with a foster parent”
  • Health / medical: “Physical Health Services”
  • Mental health: “Behavioral Health Services”
  • Refugee resettlement (R&P): “Home Study and Post-Release Services Program (Support for Unaccompanied Minors in Sponsor Homes, Nationwide)”

Website in English only.

Service area: New York City (Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island) and Long Island.

Federal recognition and registries

  • ORR refugee resettlement funding
  • ORR unaccompanied children program

Contact

Founded 1967. IRS NTEE code P320. Revenue $50M+. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 11-1635089.

Other organizations in Syosset

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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).