Financial Help to Pay for your Adoption

Finding the money to pay for your adoption can be overwhelming. CFS works hard to keep costs as low as possible for adopting families but we also encourage you to look into grants, loans, employer benefits and fund-raising to finance your adoption.

  • A Child Waits Foundation

    The Foundation’s goal is to increase the number of children adopted by providing grants to help families with the cost of adoption.

  • Child Welfare Information Gateway

    The Gateway provides information, resources and tools to find grants, loans and tax credits to assist with financing an adoption.

  • Show Hope

    Christian musician Steven Curtis Chapman and his wife Mary Beth founded Show Hope to care for orphans by engaging the church and reducing the cost of adoption. Their grants have been a part of helping more than 6,800 children come home to the love, security and permanency of a family.

  • Lifesong for Orphans

    Lifesong believes that lack of money should never be a reason why a child does not have a family. They provide financial assistance based on specific criteria.

  • How to Afford Your Adoption

    The Dave Ramsey Show – Dave Ramsey interviews a couple who adopted two children and did not go into debt to do it.