The Adoption Foundation

Adoption is more than a single moment. It is a lifelong journey that shapes children, birth parents, and the families who open their hearts and homes. The Adoption Foundation was created to ensure that journey is supported at every stage.

The Adoption Foundation is the charitable wing of Family Connections Christian Adoptions and American Adoptions of California, both affiliates of American Adoptions. Since 1983, we’ve helped create more than 13,000 families and bring decades of experience to the foundation’s mission.

Why the Foundation Exists

Adoption can change a child’s life forever. But for too many children, it never happens.

Not because there aren’t families willing to love them. Because too many women never fully understand what adoption could mean for their child, for themselves, and for a waiting family.

Today, more than 329,000 children are living in foster care. The gap between children who need homes and families who want them is not a shortage of willing families. It is a shortage of awareness, understanding, and trust.

The Adoption Foundation exists to close that gap.

How the Foundation Works

While American Adoptions of California and Family Connections guide birth parents and adoptive families through the adoption process, the Foundation focuses on the broader work of expanding adoption awareness, supporting children waiting for families, and strengthening the adoption community.

Together, they share one mission: making a child’s life better through adoption.

What the Foundation Supports

Expanding Adoption Awareness

Helping women understand adoption as a positive option for their child, their future, and a waiting family. This includes education for birth parents, outreach to professionals working within the child welfare system, and advocacy efforts that help hospitals, social workers, judges, and legislators better understand and support adoption.

Removing Barriers to Adoption

Providing financial support for families pursuing adoption who may not otherwise be able to complete the process, and reducing the obstacles that stand between a child and a permanent home.

Supporting Children in Foster Care

Providing gap funding and resources for children in foster care who need additional assistance while waiting for a permanent family.

Strengthening Lifelong Outcomes

Investing in counseling, education, and community programs that support children, birth parents, and adoptive families well beyond placement.

How You Can Help

When more women understand what adoption can truly mean for their child and for themselves, more children find permanent homes. More families are made whole. And more birth mothers are given the chance to move forward with strength and hope.

Your support makes that possible. By expanding awareness, removing barriers, and walking alongside everyone touched by adoption, your gift helps more children experience the love and opportunity that a family can provide.

Give Financially

Your gift funds the awareness programs, counseling, scholarships, and family support that help children, birth parents, and adoptive families thrive.

Every dollar goes directly toward making a child’s life better through adoption. Click the Donate button below and use a credit card, debit card, or PayPal account.

Give Your Time

Time is a gift, too. And there are more ways to give it than most people realize.

• Share Your Story: Your experience as an adoptive family is one of the most powerful tools we have. A written story, a quote, a video shot on your phone, or a podcast conversation can help a birth mother see what is possible and give a waiting family the hope they need to take the next step.
• Talk with Other Families: Sometimes the most meaningful thing is a real conversation. Whether it is a couple just starting the adoption process or a family navigating life after placement, your perspective matters in ways no brochure ever could.
• Leave a Google Review: A five-minute review puts adoption in front of people actively searching for answers. It is one of the simplest things you can do and one of the most far-reaching.

Contact: adoptfoundation@americanadoptions.com to get in touch and to see how you can help.

Your Gift Is Tax-Deductible

The Adoption Foundation operates under Family Connections Christian Adoptions and American Adoptions of California, registered 501(c)(3) nonprofits. All donations are tax-deductible to the full extent allowed by law. You will receive a written acknowledgment for your records.

EIN: 77-0315220  |  Licensed adoption agency in California

Donations may be mailed to our main office at 4101 Tully Rd, Suite 501, Modesto, CA 95356, or to any of our branch offices in Sacramento, Fresno, San Luis Obispo, and Carlsbad.

Sacramento Office
9700 Business Park Drive, Suite #402
Sacramento, CA 95827

Fresno Office
7257 No. Maple, Suite #101
Fresno, CA 93720

San Luis Obispo Office
1540 Marsh Street, Suite 130
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401

Carlsbad Office
2815 Jefferson Street, #301
Carlsbad, CA 92008

Questions? Call 1-800-236-7846

Help us make a child’s life better through adoption.

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