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 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
The Adoption Tax Credit
A federal tax credit is available to eligible families.
The National Council for Adoption (NCFA) has updated its Adoption Tax Credit articles and resources for the 2025 tax filing season.
This article answers a number of frequently asked questions on the Adoption Tax Credit, including what it is, how it works, how families can qualify, what is needed to apply, what expenses are covered, and others.
Understanding the Adoption Tax Credit
This article provides a detailed look at the Adoption Tax Credit, with a brief look at its history in addition to important information about eligibility guidelines, documentation requirements, and FAQs.
This article offers information on a range of financial assistance options for adoption, including federal and state adoption tax credits, subsidies, loans, and more.
Visit: https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc607 (or look up IRS tax topic 607) to learn more.
Zoe!Fund Grants for Waiting Children
In Greek , the word Zoe means "life" but not just ordinary life…vitality!
This is our vision for children with special needs…a life of vitality rooted in the unconditional love of a family.
A Waiting Child is a child who is in immediate need of adoption and is ready to be matched with an adoptive family. We regularly receive information from our international partners about children who are in need of immediate adoption. The child has been identified by their caretakers as a child who would thrive in an adoptive family.
The ZOE! Fund allows Agape Adoptions to offer grants for specific waiting children who are on Agape Adoptions' advocacy list, making the costly adoption process more manageable for families who are ready to welcome these precious children into their homes.
Due to privacy concerns, we don't publicly display photos of the children. However, we can provide more information on our secure Waiting Child pages. To access these pages, you'll need to create an account.