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Washington Apples license plate

Show your pride, support WAEF students

Putting a Washington Apples specialty plate on your car not only shows your pride in our region’s tree fruit industry but also sends $28 every year to support WAEF students.

Get your plate at WA DOLAlready have one? Register it for gift credit
Three young children eating apples in front of a white SUV fitted with a Washington Apples specialty plate
A family’s Washington Apples plate

On the road

Plates on the road

Growers, packers, families and friends of the industry, with their Washington Apples plates — every one of them sent in by the person who bought it.

  • A man in a navy pullover and cap leaning on the tailgate of a silver GMC Sierra with a personalized Washington Apples plate reading GR8APLS
  • A woman with long fair hair standing beside the back of a white Cadillac sedan with a Washington Apples plate, under a shade tree
  • A woman standing at night beside a silver Jeep Patriot with a Washington Apples plate, lit by a porch light
  • A man in sunglasses beside a silver Subaru with a personalized Washington Apples plate reading SAXPEAR, an apple and a pear set on the tailgate
  • A woman in a face mask pointing at the personalized Washington Apples plate on the back of a tan SUV, reading GLD DEL
  • A man in a light blue polo beside the bed of a white GMC Sierra with a Washington Apples plate, parked under green trees
  • A dark blue GMC Denali with a Washington Apples plate, parked at the CMI Orchards sign
  • The front of a white Ford F-150 in a driveway with a personalized Washington Apples plate reading BADAPPL
  • The back of a red Chevrolet with a personalized Washington Apples plate reading ADMSAPL, under autumn trees
  • The rain-beaded tailgate of a red Ford pickup with a personalized Washington Apples plate reading HEP in a Town Ford Wenatchee frame
  • The back of a white Jeep Grand Cherokee with a Washington Apples plate, in the driveway of a grey house
  • The front of a blue Jeep Wrangler fitted with a winch and a Washington Apples plate
  • The back of a silver Subaru Outback with a Washington Apples plate, parked beside a house
  • The front of a white GMC Denali with a Washington Apples plate, parked outside the Washington Apple Commission building

Already have a plate?

Register your plate for gift credit

Every Washington Apples license plate on the road provides $28 each year for WAEF scholarships. Register your plate and WAEF will credit that gift to you, for every vehicle you have plated, and send you a receipt you can use to deduct the gift on your tax return.

What WAEF needs from you

Have your current vehicle registration to hand. For each vehicle, WAEF needs

  • Your name and mailing address
  • The license plate number
  • The tab (decal) number from the registration
  • The issue date from the registration

See where these are on your registration

The issue date is the date you renewed your registration and attached new tabs to your plate — not the date you bought the vehicle, unless you are reporting a new purchase.

Send it by email

Email the details to WAEF or use the link below to open a message with the fields already laid out.

waef@waef.org

Open a pre-filled email

Or call the office and give the details over the phone.(509) 663-7713

How the plate came to be

A team effort in Olympia

The Washington Apples plate went from an idea to the road in seven months, and it has been raising money for students every year since.

Late in 2019 the Washington Apple Commission took the idea of a plate paying tribute to Washington apple growers to Wenatchee-area state Senator Brad Hawkins, who sponsored Senate Bill 6032. During January to March 2020, WAEF and the Washington Apple Commission made several trips to Olympia sharing the immense economic impact of Washington’s tree fruit industry on the entire state, and the vital role the industry’s charity has in the lives of students and their families by providing access to higher education.

The bill passed the House on March 6, 2020, was signed into law on March 19, and the first plates went on sale July 1, 2020. We are grateful to Senator Hawkins, whose efforts joined with those of representatives and senators from districts 12, 14 and 15 to get the bill passed; to the Washington Apple Commission for selecting WAEF to be the beneficiary of proceeds from the sales of license plates and for their partnership on this and other efforts; and to the Washington State Tree Fruit Association, which provided much guidance and support as we worked through the legislative process. It was a team effort!

Five supporters holding red apples and a mock Washington Apples plate reading SB6032, in a marble hallway in Olympia
Making the case for Senate Bill 6032 in Olympia

$197,000+

raised for WAEF students by September 2026

Six years of plates on the road.

$28

to WAEF from every purchase and renewal

A gift that repeats every year.

2020

July 1 — the first plates on the road

Senate Bill 6032, signed March 19, 2020.

The Washington Apples license plate, in a short video.

Watch the plate video

The trips to Olympia that made it law.

Watch the legislative journey

Five years on, what the plate has done for students.

Read the five-year story
The Washington Apples specialty plate — a navy plate reading Washington, with the red Washington apple mark, the letters WAC, a sample number and the line World’s Finest Apples

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