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.

Midwest Asian Health Association - Maha

218 W 26TH ST, CHICAGO, IL 60616-2204

Midwest Asian Health Association - Maha is a nonprofit organization in Chicago, Illinois that serves immigrants and refugees.

MAHA serves medically underserved, low-income Asian Americans (largely Chinese) in the Chicago area with health screening/immunization and a community clinic, mental health counseling, health insurance enrollment navigation, health education, and employment assistance.

Mission

Working with community organizations in the midwest to reduce health disparities and improve health care accessibility in Asian americans & pacific islanders (AAPIS) through the direct service programs and community outreach which includes education, research, policy advocacy, and networking...

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Benefits enrollment: “SERVICES PROVIDED FOR HELPING COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO ENROLL IN MARKETPLACE HEALTH INSURANCE AND MEDICAID”
  • Employment / job training: “COMPREHENSIVE EMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED TO LOW-INCOME ASIANS AND OTHER MINORITIES WITH MENTAL ILLNESS AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES”
  • Food assistance: “CLIENTS RECEIVED FOOD PANTRY IN 2025”
  • Health education: “MAHA PROVIDES BILINGUAL EDUCATION FOR HEPATITIS B WITH LOCAL AND REGIONAL PARTNERS”
  • Health / medical: “THIS ORGANIZATION ALSO PROVIDES HEPATITIS B SCREENING TO CLIENTS AT COMMUNITY SITES”
  • Housing
  • Mental health: “MAHA community mental health clinic promotes public awareness about the mental health problems in the Asian American populations and provides community support, counseling services, and therapy.”

Languages

Services delivered in Mandarin, Cantonese.

Website in more than one language.

Communities served

Asian.

Service area: Chicago metropolitan area and Naperville, Illinois.

Federal recognition and registries

  • HUD-approved housing counselling agency
  • SAMHSA mental health treatment locator
  • SAMHSA substance use treatment locator

Contact

Founded 2003. IRS NTEE code G20. Revenue $5M-9.99M. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 36-4526722.

Other organizations in Chicago

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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).