Our Mission: Uniting communities to alleviate hunger United Food Bank (UFB) has received a 501(c)(3) designation from the Internal Revenue Service. United Food Bank is a private nonprofit that provides hunger relief and food assistance by collecting, acquiring, storing, and distributing food and related commodities through a network of partner social services agencies in our service area: Eastern Maricopa, Gila, Pinal, Southern Apache, Southern Navajo Counties. We are resource driven as well as need driven. We provide as many resources as possible through our best efforts, knowing there will be times when the need is greater than the available resources.