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.

Somali American Council of Oregon

Also known as SACOO.

12409 NE GLISAN ST, PORTLAND, OR 97230-2144

Somali American Council of Oregon is a nonprofit organization in Portland, Oregon that serves immigrants and refugees.

SACOO serves Oregon's Somali and broader African immigrant community with health education, insurance enrollment outreach, rental and emergency assistance, youth education/gang prevention, cultural programming, and community advocacy.

Mission

SACOO mission is to empower the Somali community by enhancing relationships between members of the community and between the community and state wide and/or federal agencies while also promoting cultural expression and diversity. In partnership with existing Somali community organizations, SACOO conducts outreach and promotes dialog on public policy issues. Somali American Council of Oregon (SACOO) is dedicated to improving our community an environment by creating of hope and unity.

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Advocacy / policy: “SACOO conducts outreach and promotes dialog on public policy issues”
  • Benefits enrollment: “Outreach and signing of OHP. Partnered with OHA/OHP team to sign immigrant community at refugee serving locations.”
  • Cultural programming: “Art Programs for the Somali Community ($40,000)”
  • Education / youth: “Tutoring Programs ($516,531)”
  • Emergency / basic needs: “Rental / Utilities Assistance”
  • Food assistance: “Feeding the community during Covid-19”
  • Health education: “The primary goal of the Tobacco Prevention Program is to raise awareness about the dangers of tobacco use, particularly among youth and adults in the community.”
  • Housing: “WASHINGTON COUNTY - EMERGENCY RENT ASSISTANCE (ERA) 2.0 This contract was specifically to pay rent to the underserved communities”

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Communities served

Somali.

Service area: Oregon.

Contact

Founded 2015. IRS NTEE code Q20. Revenue $1M-4.99M. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 32-0338616.

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).