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.

Preble Street

55 PORTLAND ST, PORTLAND, ME 04101-2921

Preble Street is a nonprofit organization in Portland, Maine that serves immigrants and refugees.

Preble Street serves people experiencing homelessness, hunger, and poverty in Maine with emergency food, shelter and housing programs, case management, anti-trafficking and veterans services, and advocacy.

Mission

TO PROVIDE ACCESSIBLE BARRIER-FREE SERVICES TO EMPOWER PEOPLE EXPERIENCING PROBLEMS WITH HOMELESSNESS, HOUSING, HUNGER, AND POVERTY AND TO ADVOCATE FOR SOLUTIONS TO THOSE PROBLEMS. FOOD PROGRAMS - THE LARGEST DIRECT SERVICE EMERGENCY FOOD PROGRAM IN NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND, PREBLE STREET FOOD PROGRAMS PREPARE AND DISTRIBUTE ALMOST ONE MILLION MEALS A YEAR TO MEET THE NUTRITIONAL NEEDS OF HOMELESS AND LOW-INCOME INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES AT: FOOD SECURITY HUB - PREPARING MEALS TWICE A DAY FOR GUESTS AT AREA HOMELESS SHELTERS AND OTHER COMMUNITY MEMBERS EXPERIENCING FOOD INSECURITY. SOUP KITCHENS - SERVING THREE MEALS A DAY, 365 DAYS A YEAR AT THE TEEN CENTER AND FLORENCE HOUSE.

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Advocacy / policy: “Our advocacy work includes community organizing, policy advocacy, and systems advocacy.”
  • Case management: “PROGRAM SERVICES INCLUDE OUTREACH, CASE MANAGEMENT, EMERGENCY FOOD”
  • Emergency / basic needs
  • Food assistance: “PREBLE STREET FOOD PROGRAMS PREPARE AND DISTRIBUTE APPROXIMATELY ONE MILLION MEALS A YEAR”
  • Housing: “VHS PROVIDES RAPID RE-HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION SERVICES THROUGHOUT MAINE”

Website in English only.

Federal recognition and registries

  • OVC trafficking victim services

Contact

Founded 1990. IRS NTEE code P300. Revenue $27,544,230. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 01-0418917.

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).