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What Front Door is
Front Door is a free, independent guide. We read official websites in every state to find help near you, and we never sell your information.
Every state, in one place
You should not have to go from office to office to find help. Tell us where you live, and we show the programs, offices and people to call there.
- states and DC
- all50
- counties
- all3,144
- cities and towns
- more than19,000
Help near you comes first
Before state and federal programs, we show places near you: food pantries, local offices and nonprofits, with phone numbers and directions.
- local offices
- more than83,000
- food pantries and meal sites
- more than3,000
- food banks, legal aid groups and community action agencies
- more than1,000
Offices and food sites as counted in our open data release of October 10, 2026, each office once. See the open data
See how it worksFrom the agency's own website
We read state and federal agency websites and link each program to the agency's own page. You can see the pages each answer came from.
- state agencies
- 672
- official pages checked
- more than99,000
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Apply on the agency's website, or let us fill in its form from your saved answers. You read it and sign. Letters and due dates stay in one place.
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How your vault works
Counts from our latest check on October 11, 2026.
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