Interfaith Welcome Coalition

Name

Interfaith Welcome Coalition

Legal name

Interfaith Welcome Coalition

Website

https://interfaithwelcomecoalition.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Humanitarian Aid and Immigrant Services

NAICS

Social Assistance (624), Emergency and Other Relief Services (62423), Community Housing Services (62422)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Refugee & Immigrant Support Services (BPAGAEAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Integration & Inclusion Services (Housing, Education, Employment) (BPADAHAI), Migrant & Refugee Legal Aid and Documentation Services (BPADAHAE), Refugee & Humanitarian Newcomer Orientation (Resettlement Support) (EDAAADAI)

Keywords

• Humanitarian aid services
• Asylum seeker support
• Immigrant advocacy programs
• Faith-based coalition
• Refugee welcome services

Headquarters

HQ city

San Antonio

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices4 records

Markets served

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Individual Donations: IWC relies heavily on individual donor support. The organization solicits financial gifts to support operations during challenging political times when asylum reception has been largely closed off.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Interfaith Welcome Coalition delivers free, in-person humanitarian assistance to asylum seekers, refugees, and at-risk immigrants transiting through San Antonio after release from ICE/CBP custody. Core offerings include greeting and travel wayfinding at the Greyhound Bus Station and San Antonio International Airport, distribution of welcome backpacks with essentials, accompaniment to ICE check-ins, detention facility visitation, Know Your Rights training, card-writing programs for detainees, and faith-based immigrant advocacy. All services are provided at no cost to beneficiaries and funded by individual donations and faith-community support.

Product overview

Interfaith Welcome Coalition (IWC) is a faith-based nonprofit organization providing humanitarian services to asylum seekers, refugees, and at-risk immigrants in San Antonio, Texas. IWC does not offer a software product or technology platform. Instead, it operates a suite of direct service programs including the Bus Station Hospitality Program, Airport Outreach Program, and Backpack Brigade, which provide practical assistance (backpacks, travel snacks, wayfinding) to migrants processed by ICE/CBP. Additional programs include Know Your Rights training, card writing programs for detention centers, detention visitation, and a published book 'Traveling Mercies: Encounters With Asylum Seekers.' These programs are coordinated through volunteer recruitment and faith-based advocacy collaborations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Bus Station Hospitality Program In-person greeting, travel wayfinding, and welcome backpacks (snacks, toiletries, blankets) provided to asylum seekers and migrants released from immigration detention at the downtown San Antonio Greyhound Bus Station, including those who have never traveled by bus before.
• Airport Outreach Program Volunteer-driven greeting and backpack distribution for arriving families at San Antonio International Airport, including explanation of security procedures and travel routes for travelers with no prior flight experience.
• Backpack Brigade Program Volunteer-run assembly and distribution of backpacks containing blankets, toiletries, and other essential items to asylum seekers and migrants in transit at bus station and airport locations.
• Detention Visitation Program Volunteer visits to immigration detention facilities including Karnes County Detention Center, Dilley, and Pearsall, providing companionship, emotional support, and human connection to individuals held in custody.
• Know Your Rights Training Zoom-based training sessions led by attorneys to help advocates and community members assist vulnerable immigrants in understanding and exercising their constitutional rights regardless of immigration status.
• Card Writing Programs Volunteer programs producing Valentine's Day cards, holiday cards, and coloring books for distribution to individuals held in immigration detention centers.
• Traveling Mercies: Encounters With Asylum Seekers Published book containing more than 70 stories from immigrants and volunteers documenting experiences with asylum seekers, available in paperback and Kindle formats.
• Faith-Based Advocacy and Education Interfaith collaborations including working groups, morning vigils, and interfaith events with faith organizations such as West Ave Compassion, Comunidad Impacto, and Roca De Refugio to support immigrants through advocacy, education, and direct service.

Quantifiable outcome

• Served 16,907 people in 2024 with volunteer hours equivalent to $82,431

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

23 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• SA StandscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIWC partners with SA Stands, an immigrant justice organization. IWC members attended Texas Impact legislative events alongside SA Stands. Carolina Canizales from SA Stands speaks at IWC meetings about deportation defense and ending police-ICE collaboration.
• Catholic CharitiescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCatholic Charities is mentioned alongside IWC as organizations impacted by funding freezes for reception and shelter operations. IWC works closely with Catholic Charities on immigration services.
• City of San AntoniominorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe City of San Antonio is mentioned as a partner impacted by federal funding freezes that affect reception and shelter operations.
• Texas ImpactcoreGTM or Marketing PartnerIWC collaborates with Texas Impact to guide advocacy education and action. IWC members participate in Texas Impact legislative events and the San Antonio Immigration Caucus formed in partnership with Texas Impact.
• Interfaith Immigration Coalition (IIC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIWC is a member of IIC, an alliance of more than 50 faith-based organizations. IIC crafts advocacy letters and organizes national vigils and days of action. IWC participates in IIC campaigns including support for Annunciation House.
• Nuevos VecinoscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIWC and Nuevos Vecinos co-hosted a Volunteer Celebration in November 2025. Nuevos Vecinos is a partner organization in providing immigrant support services.
• Roca De Refugio (Iglesia Cristiana Roca de Refugio)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPastor Dianne Garcia of Roca De Refugio created the San Antonio Immigrant Support Coalition with numerous working groups. IWC has intense collaboration with this faith community. Pastor Garcia received the 2026 Oscar Romero Award.
• West Ave CompassionminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerIWC has collaborated intensely with West Ave Compassion on faith-based initiatives and immigrant support.
• Comunidad ImpactominorStrategic or Co-development PartnerIWC collaborates with Comunidad Impacto, particularly through Pastor Liliana Padilla, on immigrant support initiatives.
• Move TexasminorGTM or Marketing PartnerIWC partnered with Move Texas for a Voting Party event to encourage student voter participation.
• Project QuestminorGTM or Marketing PartnerIWC partnered with Project Quest for the Voting Party event at San Antonio College.
• San Antonio AIDS FoundationminorGTM or Marketing PartnerIWC partnered with San Antonio AIDS Foundation for the Voting Party event.
• Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCarolina Canizales, who speaks at IWC meetings about SA Stands, serves as Senior Texas Campaign Strategist at ILRC. ILRC helps build organizing and advocacy capacity to fight criminalization and deportation.
• Annunciation HouseminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerIWC signed solidarity letter supporting Annunciation House, a Catholic nonprofit from El Paso helping migrants for nearly 50 years that faced legal action from Texas Attorney General.
• Black Public MediaminorGTM or Marketing PartnerBlack Public Media presented Laura Varela (IWC Communications Director) and colleague Andrew J. Gonzales with the Jacquie Jones Memorial Award for their upcoming documentary.
• Travis Park ChurchcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTravis Park Church serves as IWC storage location for backpacks and is supported by LDS logistics volunteers for moving supplies.
• Redeemer Presbyterian ChurchcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBackpack Brigade meets every Monday morning at Redeemer Presbyterian Church to assemble welcome backpacks.
• University Presbyterian ChurchcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUniversity Presbyterian Church hosts backpack assembly events and fundraising for asylum seekers at bus station and airport.
• Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLDS logistics volunteers help move backpacks and supplies to IWC storage at Travis Park Church. LDS volunteers assist with moving water and supplies.
• La Trinidad UMCminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerIWC thanks La Trinidad UMC for Puente Pals volunteer program supporting immigrant communities.
• San Antonio College Center for Civic EngagementminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSAC Center for Civic Engagement students provide sack lunches to IWC migrants twice a year and partnered for Voting Party.
• Baylor College Service ChapelminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerBaylor College Service Chapel students partnered with IWC to pack backpacks for refugees.
• Mobile Loaves and FishesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerIWC has urgent need for volunteers to join Mobile Loaves and Fishes Lunch Delivery team.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Catholic Charities of San Antonio: Faith-based nonprofit providing refugee resettlement, immigration legal services, and humanitarian aid in San Antonio. Co-impacts of the same federal funding freezes affecting IWC, and operates directly in IWC's service ecosystem with shared referral pathways for asylum seekers.
• SA Stands: San Antonio immigrant justice organization partnering with IWC on deportation defense and policy advocacy. Operates as a complementary peer in the same geography with overlapping advocacy priorities and shared volunteer networks.
• Nuevos Vecinos: San Antonio-based immigrant support organization that co-hosted IWC's November 2025 Volunteer Celebration. Provides comparable direct service to newly arrived immigrants in the same geographic market.
• Annunciation House: El Paso-based Catholic nonprofit providing direct humanitarian reception, shelter, and transit support to migrants at the Texas-Mexico border for nearly 50 years. Operates a near-identical service model to IWC (welcome, basic-needs support, onward travel) and is a direct Texas-border peer that IWC has publicly supported.
• RAICES (Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services): San Antonio-based nonprofit providing legal representation, education, and resettlement services to immigrants and refugees in Texas. Operates in the same San Antonio geography with overlapping beneficiary populations (asylum seekers, unaccompanied minors, families) and complementary services to IWC.

Others

• Interfaith Immigration Coalition (IIC): National alliance of 50+ faith-based organizations coordinating advocacy and direct service for immigrants. IWC is a member organization, making IIC the parent coalition peer that channels IWC's local advocacy into national campaigns.

Regional players

• Texas Impact: Texas statewide interfaith advocacy organization that partners with IWC on legislative education and action, including the San Antonio Immigration Caucus. Operates at the same state policy intersection but with an advocacy rather than direct-service focus.

Broad incumbents

• HIAS: The international Jewish refugee resettlement agency providing reception, legal aid, and integration services to refugees and asylum seekers across the U.S. A larger established incumbent in the same humanitarian-reception category with broader geographic reach and institutional funding.
• International Rescue Committee (IRC): Global humanitarian organization providing resettlement, asylum support, and integration services to refugees across 40+ U.S. cities. Comparable core beneficiary population (asylum seekers in transit) with significantly larger scale and broader program portfolio than IWC.

Emerging players

• Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC): National nonprofit providing legal resources, training, and advocacy strategy for immigrant-serving organizations. ILRC's Texas campaign strategist speaks regularly at IWC meetings, and the two organizations coordinate on Know Your Rights education and anti-deportation advocacy.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/texasiwc
• Facebookfacebook.com/texasiwc
• Instagraminstagram.com/texasiwc
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/interfaith-welcome-coalition

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Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

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