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 Parent Association

1821 UNIVERSITY AVE APT 247, SAINT PAUL, MN 55104-0000

Somali American Parent Association is a nonprofit organization in St. Paul, Minnesota that serves immigrants and refugees.

A Somali-American organization in Saint Paul that provides after-school tutoring, parent-teacher engagement, education advocacy, and a feeding program for immigrant children and youth.

Mission

The mission of the organization is to reduce achievement gap of children of immigrant families through advocacy, parent/teacher engagement and creating safe education environment. Promotion of education among immigrant youth, organizing parent-teachers meetings to promote parent engagement in youth educations, after school tuitoring and feeding program. SAPA empowers Somali families to be involved in all aspects of their children's education. SAPA is a nonprofit organization that caters to the East African Community in the state of Minnesota.

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Advocacy / policy
  • Education / youth: “SAYPA's Tutoring is helping elementary and middle school children in the core subjects of reading, math, science, spelling, social studies, and language arts.”

Communities served

Somali.

Contact

Founded 2009. IRS NTEE code A23. Revenue $105,968. Latest Form 990: 2022. EIN 26-3120451.

Other organizations in St. Paul

All organizations in St. Paul | All organizations in Minnesota

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).