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.

The Catherine Mcauley Center

1220 5TH SE AVE, CEDAR RAPIDS, IA 52403-0000

The Catherine Mcauley Center is a nonprofit organization in Cedar Rapids, Iowa that serves immigrants and refugees.

The Catherine McAuley Center in Cedar Rapids, IA serves refugees, immigrants, and women healing from trauma, providing refugee resettlement, case management, adult ESOL and citizenship classes, employment services, youth education, childcare, benefits enrollment, food assistance, and women's transitional housing.

Mission

THE CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER (CMC) OFFERS HOPE AND OPPORTUNITY THROUGH EDUCATIONAL AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES THAT PROMOTE STABILITY, SKILL-BUILDING, AND CONNECTION. REFUGEE & IMMIGRATION SERVICES (RIS) PROVIDES A WIDE RANGE OF SUPPORT SERVICES TO ASSIST REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS IN ADJUSTING TO LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES. DURING FY 2024, OVER 1,100 INDIVIDUALS ACCESSED ONE OR MORE ELIGIBLE SERVICES THROUGH RIS. AS AN AFFILIATE OF THE U.S. COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS (USCRI), CMC PROVIDES REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT SERVICES TO NEWLY ARRIVED REFUGEES THROUGH CASE MANAGEMENT, SECURING HOUSING, EMPLOYMENT, MEDICAL CARE, EDUCATION, COMMUNITY RESOURCE NAVIGATION, AND CULTURAL ORIENTATION.

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Benefits enrollment: “ENROLLED 90 CLIENTS IN WIC AND SNAP BENEFITS”
  • Case management: “CASE MANAGEMENT TO 313 INDIVIDUALS”
  • Childcare: “CMC Kids Program where children of refugee and immigrant clients can go to learn and play while their parents access services.”
  • Citizenship: “PREPARING FOR THE U.S. CITIZENSHIP EXAM”
  • Digital literacy: “COMPUTER LITERACY SKILLS”
  • Economic development: “IN-HOME CHILD CARE BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING PROGRAM TO OPEN AND OPERATE LICENSED IN-HOME CHILD CARE BUSINESSES”
  • Education / youth: “61 STUDENTS IN GRADES 6-11 PARTICIPATED IN THE AFTERSCHOOL AND SUMMER LIFE PROGRAM”
  • Emergency / basic needs: “HELP WOMEN ACCESS SAFE HOUSING, THERAPEUTIC AND SKILL-BUILDING SERVICES, BASIC NEEDS”
  • Employment / job training: “EMPLOYMENT-READINESS CLASSES, INDIVIDUAL JOB-SEEKING ASSISTANCE”
  • ESL / English: “ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE”
  • Food assistance: “Our food pantry shelves are running low”
  • Housing: “TRANSITIONAL HOUSING PROGRAM PROVIDES A SAFE AND SUPPORTIVE, SOBER LIVING ENVIRONMENT”
  • Mental health: “THERAPEUTIC AND SKILL-BUILDING SERVICES”
  • Refugee resettlement (R&P): “CMC PROVIDES REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT SERVICES TO NEWLY ARRIVED REFUGEES THROUGH CASE MANAGEMENT, SECURING HOUSING, EMPLOYMENT, MEDICAL CARE, EDUCATION, COMMUNITY RESOURCE NAVIGATION, AND CULTURAL ORIENTATION”

Languages

Services delivered in Arabic, Dari, French, Haitian Creole, Spanish, Swahili.

Website offers an automatic translation widget only.

Federal recognition and registries

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

Contact

Founded 1990. IRS NTEE code P83Z. Revenue $3,625,995. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 42-1342872.

Other organizations in Cedar Rapids

All organizations in Cedar Rapids | 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).