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.

Refugee & Immigrant Self-Empowerment

Also known as RISE.

302 BURT ST, SYRACUSE, NY 13202-3911

Refugee & Immigrant Self-Empowerment is a nonprofit organization in Syracuse, New York that serves immigrants and refugees.

RISE serves refugees and immigrants (notably Somali Bantu and arrivals from 25+ countries) in Onondaga County, NY with refugee resettlement, employment services, ESL, citizenship prep, case management, healthcare navigation, financial/economic development, and women's and youth programs.

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Case management: “BRIDGING CASE MANAGERS AND EMPLOYMENT SPECIALISTS PROVIDE TO OUR NEW COMMUNITY MEMBERS A RANGE OF SERVICES”
  • Citizenship: “Citizenship Program: Since 2009, this program has helped over 100 individuals become U.S. citizens through weekly preparation and mock interviews”
  • Cultural programming: “foster inclusion and build confidence through cultural events, field trips, arts-based learning, and community-building workshops”
  • Digital literacy: “ESL instruction, computer training, resume building, and hands-on workshops”
  • Economic development: “providing refugees with agricultural training and economic opportunity through community gardens and incubator farming plots”
  • Education / youth: “after-school tutoring, and the Saturday Academy”
  • Employment / job training: “Employment Services: Offer job-readiness screenings, training, coaching, vocational English instruction, and job placement”
  • ESL / English: “English as a Second Language (ESL) classes”
  • Financial literacy: “helps participants build financial literacy and invest in long-term assets like cars, education, or small businesses”
  • Food assistance: “AN INITIAL PROVISION OF CULTURALLY APPROPRIATE MEALS AND GROCERIES”
  • Health education
  • Housing: “SUPPORT INCLUDES HOUSING AND FURNISHINGS”
  • Interpretation / translation: “interpretation and translation services”
  • Refugee resettlement (R&P): “THE RESETTLEMENT PROGRAM RECEIVES AND SUPPORTS NEWLY ARRIVED REFUGEES, ASYLEES SEEKERS AND RECIPIENTS OF SPECIAL IMMIGRANT VISAS DURING THEIR FIRST 90 DAYS IN THE U.S.”

Website in English only.

Communities served

Somali Bantu.

Federal recognition and registries

  • ORR refugee resettlement funding
  • ORR unaccompanied children program
  • State Department refugee resettlement affiliate (R&P)

Contact

Founded 2008. IRS NTEE code Q71. Revenue $4,353,068. Latest Form 990: 2022. EIN 20-2873332.

Other organizations in Syracuse

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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).