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Grants/Loans/Tax Credit for Adoption
This section lists resources to help prospective adoptive parents understand the costs involved in adoption and make it more affordable through grants, loans, employer benefits, and tax credits.
| Funding Adoption: Adoption General Information Packet 2 | |
| Series Title: | General Information Packets |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 639KB) |
| Year Published: | 2011 - 18 pages |
| This packet of three factsheets is designed to help prospective adoptive parents and others interested in learning more about the costs of adoption and resources that may be available to help with those costs. | |
How to Make Adoption an Affordable Option
National Endowment for Financial Education (2004)
Offers a booklet for prospective adoptive parents who are reluctant to pursue the process because they believe adoption is too expensive.
A Child Waits Foundation
Provides resources for families seeking grants and loans for international adoptions.
Adoption Friendly Workplace Program
Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption
Encourages employers to offer adoption benefits and helps employees advocate for these benefits in their workplace.
Adoption Tax Credit
Adoption Learning Partners
Offers an online course to help adoptive families determine their eligibility for the adoption tax credit, understand how the tax credit works, create a system for tracking and documenting expenses, and prepare for filing taxes.
Adoption Taxpayer Identification Number
Internal Revenue Service
Answers common questions about the adoption taxpayer identification number, the temporary number assigned by the Internal Revenue Service to a child pending finalization of his or her adoption.
Affording Adoption Foundation
Offers financial assistance to families in the process of adopting and provides information on post-adoption support.
| Costs of Adopting | |
| Series Title: | Factsheets for Families |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 306KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
| Year Published: | 2011 - 8 pages |
| This factsheet provides cost estimates for domestic and intercountry adoptions. Agency fees, legal fees, home study expenses, and foreign country expenses are considered. The factsheet also includes information about adoption benefits, such as Federal tax credits, state tax credits, subsidies, and adoption loans and grants. A brief list of additional resources is provided. | |
Cost of Adoption
National Adoption Center
Links to resources to offset the cost of adopting.
| Employer-Provided Adoption Benefits | |
| Series Title: | Factsheets for Families |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 272KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
| Year Published: | 2011 - 4 pages |
| This fact sheet explains the types of employee and tax benefits that are available to adoptive parents, from financial assistance and parental leave to tax credits for adoption expenses. Eligibility for such benefits is briefly discussed, and resources about employers offering adoption benefits are provided. | |
Federal Adoption Tax Credit for Special Needs Adoptions
North American Council on Adoptable Children
Provides Federal tax credit information for parents adopting a child with special needs.
Financing Your Adoption
National Council for Adoption (NCFA)
Describes NCFA's adoption line of credit, offered in conjunction with Bank of America.
Gift of Adoption Fund
Provides grants to adoptive parents.
God's Grace Adoption Ministry
Helps place orphaned children with families and helps families overcome the financial burden of adopting.
Hebrew Free Loan Association
Provides interest-free loans to Jewish adults who wish to adopt children internationally or domestically.
National Adoption Foundation
Offers financial assistance, services, and support for families before, during, and after adoptions are finalized.