OPEN ARMS HISPANIC MINISTRY

What OPEN ARMS HISPANIC MINISTRY does

Open Arms Hispanic Ministry, operating legally as Open Arms | Brazos Abiertos, is a community-based nonprofit founded in 2005 and headquartered in Orrville, Ohio, serving Latino immigrants across Wayne, Holmes, and Stark Counties. The organization's service model is built on direct human accompaniment rather than technology: staff and volunteers accompany immigrants to dental and medical appointments (providing translation and transportation), translate for parents enrolling children in school, assist with workplace and form-filling translation, run a volunteer-powered children's tutoring and summer camp program, and route clients to partner organizations for legal navigation. The organization also operates a Compassion Fund that disburses small emergency grants for unmet medical, housing, legal aid, or material needs.

The business model is a charitable-donation model with services provided entirely free of charge to beneficiaries. There is no pricing structure, no fee-for-service revenue, and no disclosed institutional grant funding; revenue is sourced from individual supporter donations, with in-kind contributions of gently used furniture and clothing collected when immigrants move into the area. GTM is community-led — acquisition of beneficiaries occurs through word-of-mouth within Latino immigrant networks, while donor acquisition relies on the organization's website, newsletters, and 20+ years of community trust rather than paid marketing. The organization has explored adjacent offerings including adult English classes and Driver Ed training, and is actively scoping an affordable housing initiative, indicating incremental programmatic extension.

Operationally, the organization runs with five employees, a volunteer core, and partner organizations that extend capacity into legal services. There is no proprietary technology stack, no AI/ML components, no app or API surface, and no disclosed data flywheel. The organization is privately held, has no parent company, no subsidiaries, no funding rounds, and no disclosed institutional ownership. Forward indicators include an Akron-dedicated webpage (suggesting geographic scoping beyond the original three-county base) and continued expansion of volunteer-recruited service lines, though financial trajectory cannot be reliably inferred from the available data.

Name

OPEN ARMS HISPANIC MINISTRY

Legal name

Open Arms | Brazos Abiertos

Website

https://openarmshispanicministry.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Open Arms Hispanic Ministry is a community-based nonprofit founded in 2005 and headquartered in Orrville, Ohio, providing free accompaniment, translation, transportation, tutoring, legal navigation, and emergency financial assistance to Latino immigrants across Wayne, Holmes, and Stark Counties in northeast Ohio.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Immigrant Support Services

NAICS

Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (813), Civic and Social Organizations (8134)

akta.pro primary industry

Refugee & Immigrant Support Services (BPAGAEAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Integration & Inclusion Services (Housing, Education, Employment) (BPADAHAI), Family & School System Navigation (Parent Engagement, Youth Services) (EDAAADAH)

Keywords

• Immigrant support services
• Translation services
• Community ministry
• Cultural accompaniment
• Latino outreach

Headquarters

HQ city

Orrville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Revenue model

1. Donations and Charitable Contributions: Open Arms relies on financial donations from supporters to pay for staff and to provide assistance through their Compassion Fund. Also accepts gently used furniture and clothing donations when immigrants move into the area.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Open Arms Hispanic Ministry is a community-based nonprofit organization that provides free accompaniment and support services to Latino immigrants in Wayne, Holmes, and Stark Counties in Ohio. Its offerings include dental/medical appointment accompaniment with translation and transportation, school enrollment and workplace translation, children's tutoring and summer camps, legal navigation support through partner organizations, and emergency financial assistance via a Compassion Fund.

Product overview

Open Arms | Brazos Abiertos is a community service nonprofit organization (based in Orrville, Ohio) offering a unified suite of immigrant support services to Latino immigrants across Wayne, Holmes, and Stark Counties. The organization operates five interconnected service offerings: Dental/Medical Accompaniment Services (providing translation and transportation to appointments), Translation Services (for schools, workplaces, and documentation), Children's Tutoring & Summer Camps (academic support programs), Legal Assistance Navigation (through partner organizations), and a Compassion Fund (emergency financial assistance). These services work together to help immigrants build safe and sustainable lives in the community.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Dental/Medical Accompaniment Services

Segments1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Partner Organizations (Unnamed)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOpen Arms works with partner organizations to help immigrants navigate the complex legal system. These partner organizations provide legal assistance and support services that complement Open Arms' direct accompaniment model.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Hispanic Federation: National Latino-focused nonprofit providing direct services, advocacy, and grantmaking to Latino community-based organizations. Comparable target population (Latino immigrants) and offers a realistic institutional funding channel for Open Arms' expansion.
• US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI): National nonprofit providing refugee resettlement, integration, and humanitarian services across multiple U.S. states. Comparable service mix (case management, interpretation, employment support) and represents a potential partner or funder relationship for community-level organizations like Open Arms.
• HIAS: Global Jewish humanitarian organization resettling refugees and providing integration services including translation, employment, and case management. Comparable service architecture and mission focus, though operating at significantly larger scale and international footprint.
• International Rescue Committee (IRC): Major international humanitarian organization providing refugee resettlement, case management, and integration services across the U.S. Operates immigration programming in Ohio and offers a benchmark for the scale Open Arms could pursue if donor capacity and partnerships expand.
• Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS): National faith-based refugee resettlement and immigrant services organization affiliated with the Lutheran tradition. Provides direct services, translation, and case management similar to Open Arms but at national scale and with federal refugee-coordination contracts.
• Catholic Charities USA: National network of faith-based social service agencies offering immigration legal services, refugee resettlement, and accompaniment programming. Operates the largest non-government immigration legal services network in the U.S. and serves as a broad incumbent against which community-level ministries like Open Arms differentiate.

Direct peers

• Esperanza Inc. Faith-rooted Latino immigrant services organization in Philadelphia offering legal services, translation, education, and youth programming. Closely mirrors Open Arms' multi-service accompaniment model and faith-based identity at a comparable small-to-mid organizational scale.
• Justice For Our Neighbors: Faith-based network providing free and low-cost immigration legal services through local host sites, with a mission and operating posture very close to Open Arms' model of accompanying immigrants through complex legal systems via partnerships. Comparable grassroots-to-regional scale and faith-rooted identity.

Others

• Casa de la Cultura / Centro de los Derechos del Migrante: Latino advocacy and direct service organizations that operate community-based accompaniment and case management for migrant populations. Comparable grassroots service approach and Spanish-language community trust model to Open Arms, with overlap in translation and systems-navigation services.

Regional players

• Catholic Charities Diocese of Cleveland: Faith-based social services nonprofit serving immigrants across Northeast Ohio, including refugee resettlement, translation, and case management. Operates in overlapping geography (Cleveland/Akron region adjacent to Open Arms' Wayne/Holmes/Stark Counties service area) and shares the accompaniment-and-referral service model for Latino and other immigrant populations.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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