Immediate financial assistance
Help with urgent costs like utility bills, car payments, rent and food for Americans in need.
What is on your plate?
United Plates of America
A 501(c)(3) public charity working to provide immediate financial and food assistance to Americans in need — and to buy wholesale food for food banks, pantries and school pantries across the Northwest.
Our mission
United Plates of America exists to provide immediate financial and food assistance to Americans in need. We want to help with urgent costs such as utility bills, car payments, rent and food, and to buy food at wholesale and distribute it to food banks, pantries and school pantries across the Northwest.
Our focus is direct, immediate help rather than long-term programs.
What we do
Two simple goals: help people get through a hard moment, and help food reach the places that feed them.
Wholesale food for pantries
Buying food at wholesale and distributing it to food banks, pantries and school pantries across the Northwest.
Need help?
Our process for requesting help is coming soon. Requests will be reviewed, and we cannot guarantee that any request will receive assistance. If you need help now, these services are available:
If you need help right now
- Emergency: call 911.
- Mental-health crisis: call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline).
- Local help with food, housing, utilities and other needs: call 211. In Washington, call 1-877-211-9274.
Our impact
[PLACEHOLDER: impact figures — add only numbers we can document and source, with a date range. Delete this section if there are none yet]
Voices from our community
[PLACEHOLDER: testimonial / story — real quotes only, with written permission from the person quoted]