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.

Washington County Council of Churches

130 W FRANKLIN ST, HAGERSTOWN, MD 21740-4704

Washington County Council of Churches is a nonprofit organization in Hagerstown, Maryland that serves immigrants and refugees.

A Hagerstown-area interfaith coalition serving food-insecure children with weekend meals and after-school enrichment and resettling newly arrived refugees with housing, food, transportation, and connection to local services.

Mission

Our mission is to embody mercy, justice and love as diverse faith partners in Washington County. The Council is a coalition of churches and houses of faith in the Hagerstown area of Washington County Maryland. Micah's Backpack, a partnership with Washington County Public Schools (WCPS), Maryland Food Bank, and 48 houses of worship and organizations, provides weekend meals throughout the school year for more than 1,300 food-insecure children. Refugee Welcome Network helps to settle refugees fleeing violence or persecution in their home country and seeking to rebuild their lives in the United States. In 2024, HARC welcomed and supported 24 families/individuals - a total of 70 people.

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Education / youth: “Lighthouse After-School Program, launched in September 2024, offers fun educational and enrichment programs for more than 200 children in multiple schools.”
  • Food assistance: “Micah's Backpack is a partnership with Washington County Public Schools to provide nutritious meals for food insecure children each weekend of the school year.”
  • Housing: “Refugee Welcome Network (refugee resettlement) served 13 families - 50 total people - in 2023 with housing, household goods, food, transportation, and connection to other local services”
  • Refugee resettlement (R&P): “Refugee Welcome Network (refugee resettlement) served 13 families - 50 total people - in 2023”

Website in English only.

Contact

Founded 2001. IRS NTEE code X90. Revenue $477,693. Latest Form 990: 2024. EIN 52-2095640.

All organizations in Maryland

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).