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 Resource Center

Also known as U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants - Des Moines.

1200 University Ave, Des Moines, IA 50314

Refugee Resource Center is a nonprofit organization in Des Moines, Iowa that serves immigrants and refugees.

USCRI's Des Moines office resettles newly arrived refugees and serves immigrants and trafficking survivors with housing, employment, interpreting, immigration legal, and health/mental health services.

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Case management: “Social Services may include family support, matching grants, employment, and intensive case management.”
  • Employment / job training: “employment preparation and placement”
  • Health / medical: “Health services and mental health counseling are provided to refugees, immigrants, unaccompanied minors and survivors of trafficking.”
  • Housing: “housing placement, cultural orientation, school enrollment, healthcare coordination, and employment preparation and placement”
  • Interpretation / translation: “Employment, Housing and Interpreting: These services are offered to refugees and survivors of trafficking to help them get back on their feet as quickly as possible.”
  • Legal / immigration: “The Immigration Legal Services Program offers low-cost, professional legal representation to low-income refugees and immigrants and their families with family- and humanitarian-based immigration matters.”
  • Mental health: “Health and Mental Health: Health services and mental health counseling are provided to refugees, immigrants, unaccompanied minors and survivors of trafficking.”
  • Refugee resettlement (R&P): “Newly arrived refugees receive a comprehensive set of services including housing placement, cultural orientation, school enrollment, healthcare coordination, and employment preparation and placement.”

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Federal recognition and registries

  • State Department refugee resettlement affiliate (R&P)

Contact

IRS NTEE code Q71. Latest Form 990: 2016. EIN 47-2094090.

Other organizations in Des Moines

All organizations in Des Moines | All organizations in Iowa

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).