SUN Bucks offered by DSHS Community Service Offices
Provides a $120 benefit per eligible child to be used to offset food costs over the summer. Funds will be added to a SUN Bucks card. Children are automatically enrolled if they receive free or reduced price meals through their school district or SNAP. Applications accepted through August of each year.
Provides a one-time payment of $120 per eligible child that will be deposited onto new SUN Bucks cards and mailed beginning in early June each year to be used to purchase food, similar to SNAP. SUN Bucks do expire and are removed from the card 122 days after they are first issued.
The Public Charge rule does not apply to SUN Bucks benefits and will not impact immigration status.
Basic Needs Assistance offered at St Vincent de Paul in Richland
(ONLY Benton City, Richland, and West Richland) Provides financial assistance with basic needs.
(ONLY Benton City, Richland, and West Richland) Provides financial assistance for utilities, rent, medication expenses, food/household goods, furniture (as available), some educational expenses, and gas vouchers. People in need of clothing may be referred to the St Vincent de Paul Food Bank in Pasco.
Financial Assistance offered at St. Gregorios Christian Church
Provides some financial assistance to those in need in the area, based on limited funding. May be able to help with gas, food, and utilities on a case-by-case basis.
Provides some financial assistance to those in need in the area, based on limited funding. May be able to help with gas, food, and utilities on a case-by-case basis.
Kinship Caregiver Support Program offered at Family Education and Support Services
Links grandparents and other relative caregivers to support groups, resources, provides education, increases access and offers case management along with financial support.
Links grandparents and other relative caregivers to:
- support groups,
- resources,
- provides education,
- increases access and
- offers case management along with financial support.
Financial support is in the form of:
- rental and utility assistance,
- funds for purchases of bedding, furniture,
- clothing,
- food,
- car repairs,
- gas/bus vouchers and
- medications for the child.
Emergency aid is available for those who qualify. Please contact the Kinship Navigator.
Emergency Financial Assistance offered by CAP Center
Provides crisis need assistance (utilities, prescription medication, gasoline, short term lodging (1-3 day motel stays) and food vouchers).
Provides crisis need assistance (food, utilities, gas, water, electric - with cutoff notice). Assistance is given in the form of vouchers or direct payments to service providers once per 12 month period.
Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP) offered at Snohomish County
Provides eligible low-income seniors one $80 benefit card to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables at participating farmers markets and farm stands.
Provides lower income seniors with an electronic benefits card that will be used to purchase $80 in fresh fruits, vegetables, honey, and fresh-cut herbs at approved farmers markets and farm stores throughout Washington State. If you need to request an application by mail, call Snohomish County Long-Term Care & Aging (LTCA) at 425-388-7393. For assistance completing an application, or to request an application in a language other than English, call the Snohomish County Aging and Disabilities Resource Network (ADRN) at 425-513-1900.
Emergency Financial Assistance offered at Saint Vincent de Paul Sacred Heart Church
Provides small (one-time) amounts of financial help for food voucher, gas voucher, and bus fare.
Provides small (one-time) amounts of financial help for food voucher, gas voucher, and bus fare. Other resources should be tried first. Sacred Heart Church staff refers the applicant to St. Vincent de Paul volunteer and the volunteer in turn gets in touch with the applicant, which takes 24-48 hours.
DV Material Needs Assistance offered by Salvation Army's Community Advocacy Program
Provides limited basic needs and financial assistance to those needing help due to a current or recent DV situation involving intimate partner abuse.
Provides limited basic needs and financial assistance to eligible applicants needing help as result of a current or recent (within 6 months) intimate partner abuse situation.
Services are confidential.
Provides financial assistance based on funding availability with:
- Utility bill arrears
- Housing: funds for landlord applications and move-in costs subject to funders guidelines while funds last. No rental assistance is available.
- Food/Grocery items
- Basic Clothing
- Hygiene items/Toiletries
- Prescriptions
- Eyeglasses
- Bus tickets/ Transport
- Diapers
- Baby formula
- Other infant needs
Language interpretation is available in person or over the phone.
Financial Assistance offered at Saint Paul's Episcopal Church, Alms Ministry
Provides a small amount of emergency financial assistance for transportation, food, utilities, and other emergency needs. No assistance for motel vouchers or automotive repairs. Must visit in-person only.
Provides small amounts of emergency financial assistance for transportation, food, utilities and other emergency needs. No support for hotels and car repairs. VERY limited support for large (>$200) utility bills from a network of churches. Must visit in person only.
Financial Assistance offered by King County Veterans Program in Tukwila
Helps veterans with food, shelter, utilities, eviction prevention, employment related expenses, move-in costs, medical, gas and prescriptions. Satellite offices located throughout King County.
Provides financial assistance to help veterans with housing, employment and medical expenses as well as life stability.
Financial assistance is provided as part of a client's service plan.
- Financial assistance for housing expenses (e. g. , rent, mortgage), eviction prevention, move-in expenses, transitional housing and shelter expenses.
- Financial assistance for medical expenses, medical aids/equipment and prescriptions.
Youth and Young Adult Lifeline offered at Y Social Impact Center in Seattle
Offers program that offers support and connections to services.
The Lifeline program serves as a no-wrong-door access point for support and connection to services for youth and young adults in Washington who require assistance to overcome a life challenge that could escalate into a crisis if not addressed. If you are exiting a system of care, we can help meet your immediate needs through resource navigation and the distribution of program funding for food, shelter, transportation, and more.
Offers financial assistance to cancer patients who are within a three-month window of treatment. Includes help with rent, food & medical supplies.
Offers financial assistance to cancer patients in urgent need who are within a three-month window of treatment. Cancer patients may be eligible for a one-time grant of up to $450 to help with expenses including the following:
- Rent/mortgage
- Utilities
- Food
- Transportation
- Dental care
- Childcare
- Medical supplies
- Prescription copays
Financial assistance may take up to two to three months, so program is not able to assist with immediate shut-off or eviction notices.
Financial Assistance offered by King County Veterans Program in Seattle
Helps veterans with food, shelter, utilities, eviction prevention, haircut vouchers, move-in costs, medical, gas and prescriptions. Satellite offices located throughout King County.
Provides financial assistance to help veterans with housing, employment and medical expenses as well as life stability.
Financial assistance is provided as part of a client's service plan.
- Financial assistance for housing expenses (e. g. , rent, mortgage), eviction prevention, move-in expenses, transitional housing and shelter expenses.
- Financial assistance for medical expenses, medical aids/equipment and prescriptions.
Food and Hygiene offered at Regional Veterans Service Center
Provides emergency food vouchers and hygiene assistance to honorably discharged Veterans, their families, and widows pursuant to the laws of the State of Washington. Emergency assistance is geared towards sustainable positive outcomes for eligible veterans. Service officers are knowledgeable, skilled and have relationships with area partners who together with their services will often be successful in forming comprehensive and lasting solutions for clients.
Provides emergency food and hygiene assistance to honorably discharged Veterans, their families, and widows pursuant to the laws of the State of Washington. Emergency assistance is geared towards sustainable positive outcomes for eligible veterans. Service officers are knowledgeable, skilled and have relationships with area partners who together with their services will often be successful in forming comprehensive and lasting solutions for clients.
Emergency Assistance Vouchers offered at St Vincent de Paul - East Jefferson County
Assist with emergency, temporary, or short term need by providing vouchers. Clients leave a message. Calls are returned by volunteers M-Th who will try to schedule a face-to-face meeting to asses need and decide on appropriate assistance.
Assistance with emergency, temporary, or short term needs. Assistance provided is **never** given in cash, but may be given as vouchers or as checks mailed directly to a landlord or utility company. Does not offer a food pantry.
Food Bank and Commodities offered at Salvation Army - Clallam
Offers a food bank with fresh produce and government commodities to those needing food. The door to the food bank is the double doors in our back parking lot.
Offers a food bank with fresh produce and government commodities to those needing food.
Tribal Food Voucher Program offered by Small Tribes Organization of Western Washington
Processes the Tribal Food Voucher Program on behalf of the following tribes: Chinook, Cowlitz, Duwamish, Hoh, Makah, Samish, Sauk-Suiattle, Snohomish, Steilacoom, Suquamish and Upper Skagit.
Processes the Tribal Food Voucher Program on behalf of the following tribes: Chinook, Cowlitz, Duwamish, Hoh, Makah, Samish, Sauk-Suiattle, Snohomish, Steilacoom, Suquamish and Upper Skagit.
Critical Financial Assistance offered by Operation Homefront's Pacific Northwest Office
Provides emergency financial assistance for documented needs of post 9/11 service members who have been wounded or are currently deployed. Limited assistance available for active duty service members.
Provides critical financial assistance for military families.
Examples of financial assistance include:
- Car repair
- Essential home items
- Rent or mortgage
- Utilities
- Dental
- Food
- Moving
- Emergency travel & transportation
- Eyeglasses
Must be able to show that financial resources are insufficient to meet current expenses, and that those expenses are already due or past due.
Can provide only emergency food assistance and eyeglasses to individuals in the general eligibility group.
Emergency Financial Counseling and Grants offered by Support The Enlisted Project
Provides financial counseling and grants among junior active duty enlisted members and recently discharged enlisted Veterans and their families facing financial crisis.
Provides financial counseling and may help with a grant to cover critical needs for qualifying military households.
Grants provided but not limited to:
- Bereavement Travel
- Car Insurance
- Critical baby items( cribs, car seats, diapers etc.)
- Major car repairs
- Medical Travel
- Rent/Utilities
- Sewer service
- Service Dog Care
Farmers Market Directory offered by Washington State Farmers Market Association
Maintains a searchable website listing of farmers markets across Washington state. Website indicates whether the farmers market accepts EBT cards, WIC, Senior Farmers Market checks, or Fresh Bucks.
Maintains a searchable website listing of farmers markets across Washington state.
Website indicates whether the farmers market accepts SNAP, WIC or Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program benefits.
Contact information is also provided for each farmers market.
To use an EBT card at a Farmers Markets, go to the Market information booth, tell the staff how much money you would like to spend, and they will swipe your EBT card for the amount you request.
Users will then be given tokens for the amount to buy fresh produce and other foods at the Market.
Some farmers markets participate in the SNAP Market Match (and Fresh Bucks in Seattle), which matches a certain amount of SNAP with tokens or other market currency that can used to buy fruit and vegetables at the farmers market.
Amount varies by farmers market. Participating markets are located in several counties throughout the state.
CWDR Cares Program offered at Central Washington Disability Resources
Provides one-time financial assistance for individuals with disabilities that have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Provides financial assistance for individuals with disabilities that have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. In accordance with the CARES Act, CWDR is able to provide one-time financial aid to individuals with disabilities in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. Funding to be utilized as rental assistance, food assistance, medical payment/COVID testing fees, utility bills, phone bills, necessary transportation, or to secure PPE and cleaning supplies.
Also provides information and referral assistance in locating accessible housing assistive technology, social security information, transportation, communication access, service animals, and other topic commonly associated with disabilities.
Support for Families With Pediatric Cancer offered at Footprints of Fight
Works through third party companies to provide professional house cleaning, gas cards, grocery cards and child care services to families with children being treated for pediatric cancer in Washington state.
Works through third party companies to provide the following services to families with children being treated for pediatric cancer in Washington state:
- Professional house cleaning
- Gas cards
- Grocery cards
- Child care
Human Trafficking Advocacy offered at Support, Advocacy & Resource Center SARC
Provides a full-range of services for survivors of sex trafficking, including a crisis line available 24 hours daily.
Provides a full range of services for survivors of sex trafficking.
Services include:
- Financial Resources: funds for immediate health and safety needs and assistance with relocation are available
- Crisis Line: volunteers are available 24 hours daily to answer the phone but if back-up is need, the Executive Director, Clinical Director, Program Director, and Sexual Assault Advocate are available to assist
- Access to Basic Needs: food pantries, drugstore gift cards (Target, Walmart, Albertsons), fast food gift cards, food vouchers, and more to make sure that client's needs are met
- Medical Advocacy: explaining client rights regarding medical exam, providing support during exam, assisting with connecting survivor to aftercare such as pregnancy and/or STD concerns, helping survivor complete Crime Victims Compensation (CVC), follow up with CVC and advocate on client’s behalf, connect client to other medical resources as needed for client, such as dental care or past unhealed injuries
- Assistance In Filing Police Report
- Immediate shelter (hotel or shelter): contract with local hotel to pay for short term stay for immediate safety concerns
- Cab Fare: contract with local cab company to transport clients as needed
Unmet Needs offered by Veterans of Foreign Wars Service Division at Federal Building
Helps military service members and their families with basic life needs who run into unexpected financial difficulties as a result of deployment or other hardships directly related to military service.
Helps military service members and their families who run into unexpected financial difficulties as a result of deployment or other hardships directly related to military service.
Assists with basic life needs and unanticipated financial needs such as:
- Mortgage and rent
- Car payment
- Home and auto repairs
- Insurance
- Utilities
- Food
- Clothing.
The financial assistance is in the form of up to $1,500 in grants that do not need to be repaid.
All grants are paid directly to the "creditor" (such as the electric company), and not to the individual.
Each case is reviewed individually and acceptance determined by a committee.
Applicants can receive funds only once every 18 months, and only twice total.
Second requests for assistance must be caused by a new situation and deployment.
Caregivers Support Program offered by Catholic Community Services' Kinship Services in Seattle
Provides financial assistance for kinship caregivers. Licensed foster parents are ineligible. Adults 18+ must be the primary caregiver for their friend's or relative's children. Must have exhausted all other financial resources.
Provides financial assistance for eligible families providing kinship care. Examples of items that qualify for financial assistance are listed below:
- Food, clothing, transportation, household items
- Legal custody filing fees
- School uniforms, supplies, field trips, band instruments
- Sports and youth activities registrations, fees, uniforms, tutoring
- One-time help with rent or utilities to prevent eviction or shut-off