Funding your Adoption
Your Adoption Finance Coaching
Agape Adoptions provides a FREE Personalized Adoption Finance Coaching Service through Your Adoption Finance Coach (YAFC) with a customized adoption finance plan for adoptive families. YAFC includes webinars, training videos and consultations with a coach help create an adoption budget, learn about fundraising, grants and more! Once a family is accepted to Agape Adoptions, we will set you up with the Coaching Services.
According to the YAFC service, "Families that use Kelly's system of Tools to Finance Your Adoption, Grant Writing, Special Events and more, typically raise between $5,000 and $15,000 for their adoptions."
Grants, Scholarships, & Loans
Various organization offer grants financial support to families wanting to adopt internationally. Agape Adoptions families have received grants from the follow organizations:
- 25K Campaign
- A Child Waits Foundation
- Academy of Adoption & Assisted Reproductive Attorneys (LGBTQ-friendly)
- Associates Home Loan Adoption Grant (LGBTQ-friendly)
- Both Hands
- Bree's Gift
- Brittany's Hope
- Chicago Coalition for Family Building (LGBTQ-friendly)
- Gift of Adoption Fund
- Hebrew Free Loan
- HelpUsAdopt.org (LGBTQ-friendly)
- Journey to Parenthood (LGBTQ-friendly)
- Lifesong for Orphans
- National Adoption Foundation (LGBTQ-friendly)
- Never Alone Foundation
- Orphan Outreach
- ShowHope
- The Sparrow Fund
A federal tax credit is available to eligible families. Visit:https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc607 (or look up IRS tax topic 607) to learn more.