Give Now

Your donation today—whether large or small—makes a difference! Donations made will help us support our birthmothers with counseling and support services; will help a child join a loving family through one of our foster care, or domestic infant adoption programs; and will help us assist adoptive families and adoptees through their lifelong journey. Thank you for your dedication to helping create families!

Programs That Need Your Support

Thanks to donors like you, HFS is proud to provide many services free of charge to our clients. Learn how you can help us support birth parents, foster youth, adoptive parents, and more.

How to Donate

The best way to support HFS is to donate online or by mailing a check, payable to HFS, to 840 Echo Park Ave., Los Angeles, CA. 90026.

There are other ways to support us, including legacy gifts, tribute gifts, and stock donations.

In-Kind Donations & Volunteering

You can make a difference in children and families’ lives by volunteering with HFS or by providing in-kind donations. We rely on our wonderful volunteers to help with many aspects of our operations. If you have a heart for children and want to contribute your time and talents to expand our efforts, we invite you to contact us to inquire about volunteering for HFS

For in-kind donations, please know that we are only allowed to accept brand-new items, not used items please. Please refer to our Amazon wishlist for more information.

Ways to Support Our Programs

Thanks to donors like you, HFS is proud to provide many services free of charge to our clients.

Birth Mother Support

At HFS, we have a birth parent fund that helps support our birth mothers financially while they are pregnant and recovering postpartum. This fund pays for very specific, pregnancy related support (such as food, rent, utilities, clothing, medical costs and travel to appointments, social worker time with birth parents, and legal fees related to court termination of parental rights).

All of our adoptive parents pay into the fund, but donations support the fund to keep costs down for our families.

Outreach and Education Support

Young women in an unplanned pregnancy, potential adoptive and foster parents, and medical professionals are often unaware of the resources and support services available to them and their clients. HFS’ Outreach and Education team connects with the community and builds relationships by sharing an informed, clear, meaningful message about the option of adoption and our lifelong services. Your donation helps provide our community with this important information.

Christmas and Birthday Presents for our Foster Youth

All children love the wonder and excitement of Christmas. Help provide a special gift under the tree to one or several of our foster youth. With your donation, our staff and volunteers, will select a personal gift for our children in care. Click here for the HFS Amazon Wishlist for toys and essentials

Legacy Gifts

What could be more joyful than leaving a legacy that perpetuates your values? Consider a legacy gift to HFS Adoption & Foster Care when you are evaluating your personal, family and financial needs as well as your long term charitable giving. Bequests, Beneficiary Designations, Life Insurance, Securities. Gifts both large and small are important. Take the time to consider your options carefully and plan your gift in consultation with family, lawyer or financial advisor. What legacy would you like to leave the world? Please contact us for more information.

Tribute Gifts

Tribute gifts are a meaningful way to honor a friend, colleague or loved one, while helping to continue the HFS mission. CELEBRATE a birthday or anniversary. HONOR a family members accomplishment! REMEMBER a loved one by making a donation in their memory. When you make a tribute gift, a personalized card will be sent to the person you wish to honor. In a memorial gift, the card is sent to the family of the individual being honored. This notification includes your name as the donor but does not include the amount of the gift. To make a Tribute Gift, please contact us.

Stock Gifts

Donating stock instead of cash can be a smart way to express your generosity. You can donate long-term appreciated stock you’ve held for more than a year. Not only does your charity get to benefit from a valuable item, but you also get to claim the fair market value as an itemized deduction and avoid paying the capital-gains tax that would result if you sold it and donated the cash. A simple, yet effective strategy.

To make a gift of stock, please contact your Financial Advisor and provide the following information for the receiving brokerage firm:

Ken Robbins 301 North Lake Avenue, Suite 1150 Pasadena, CA 91101-4115 Phone: 213.327.1059 Email: ken.robbins@raymondjames.com

DTC Clearing Number: 0725 FBO Holy Family Services Adoption & Foster Care Account number: 205D8542

While we are familiar with the tax provisions of the issues presented herein, as Financial Advisors we are not qualified to render advice on tax or legal matters. Raymond James does not provide tax or legal advice. Please consult your own legal or tax professional for more detailed information on tax issues and advice as they relate to your specific situation. This is not a recommendation to sell stock.”

Suggested Donation Levels

Love Grows Here Sponsor:  $5,000

Pays for rent for four birth mothers, 25 fully supplied diaper bag for birth mother who decides to parent or five months rent in our office in Orange County.

Circle of Hope Sponsor:  $2,500

Pays for 3 months of groceries for a birth mother or 10 trainings for hospital/clinic social workers & nurses.

Platinum Sponsor: $1,000

Pays for a year’s worth of foster orientations, monitor five post-adoption visits between birth parents and adoptive family or a month’s stipend to short-term foster parents to give birth mother time to think about parenting or adoption.

Gold Sponsor: $500

Pays for five car seats, 20 hours of birth parent counseling, four in-home nurse visits for new adoptive parents or 10 rides for birth mother’s prenatal doctor visits.

Associate Sponsor: $250

This is the group that started it all! The original core of support for HFS, started by Dolores Hope! Be part of this powerful legacy. Pays for six weeks of baby formula or 10 hours of post adoption counseling to birth parents.

To learn more and to make a donation, please contact us.

Our Supporters

HFS thanks our generous, long-time sponsors for their tireless support of Southern California’s children and families.

Thank you for your support!

Fiscal Year July 2022 through June 2023 *HFS Board Member   ** Monthly Donors

$30,000

The Adoption Guild of Southern California

$10,000

Lawrence A. Appley Foundation

Elaine Tumonis* & Edward De La Rosa

Mozilo Family Foundation

Marianne* & Matt Wright

Weingart Foundation

$5,000 to $9,999

Carol & Robert Anderson

Caiozzo Family Charitable Trust

Lee Graff Foundation

KLM Foundation

Joseph Zanetta*

$1,949 to $4,999

Laurie Dimmitt in honor of Gene and Bea Dedick

Pauline & Phillip Han

I.U.O.E. Local #12 Charity Gold Committee

Paula Kendrick*

Lawrence and Mary Kent Charitable Fund

David Mozilo

Judy & Dick Ruben

SaraJane & John* Thies

Ronald Trepp

$1,000 to $1,948

Tim Baker

Rebecca & Luis Bardales

Andrea & Felix Cordeiro-Benson

Disney Matching Funds

Marti & John Farley

Janet Franklin, MD

Kathleen & Michael Garvey

Carol & Fred Gregory

Amy & Thomas Hanrahan

Mary* and John Hatton

The Rev. Kate Lewis and The Rev. Patricia Hendrickson**

Cynthia Hsu

Randall Mehl

Pamela & Joe Mendoza

Nancy & W. Carlton Spencer

St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Glendale

Ivana & Matthew Sumrow

Jo-An & Eric Verstraete

$500 to $999

Jennifer Bagoyo**

Irene & Fred Binggeli

The Rev. Nathan Biornstad* & Elroden Woo

Susan & Leroy Born

Kenneth Chow

Church of the Epiphany Episcopal Church, Oak Park

Eva & Gerald Cunha

Lana & Peter Hassett

Rosemary & David Humphrey

Nancy Kearney

Kelly & John Kelleher

Kimberly & Kenneth Klosterman

Paul Krongstad

Gregory Dilger & Jeffrey Lawson*

Yayoi & Don Matsumiya

Thomas McGrath

Sandra & Leo Moons

Joanne & James Morse

Esther Parker

Corinne Basgall & Steven Ramirez**

Ken Robbins

Nancy & George Rothwell

Laurie Sherwood

Nancy & Mark Sork

St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Lompoc

Linda Brown-Trout & Brook Trout

Gretchen Wayne

Tenzin Wu

$200 to $499

The Honorable Phil and Jane Argento

The Blackboard Giving Fund

Mary & Phil Bruno*

Juliet & Ronald Chase

Janette Freeman Cochran

Bethanne Coffey

Diane & Timothy Creyaufmiller

Deborah Newquist & Joseph Dimento

Brendan Dixon

Janet & Dr. Vincent Esposito

Facebook Fundraisers

Beatrice Floyd

Pamela Fossler

Mary & Steven Frintner

Jamie Garcia

Dr. Mary Giammona

Laurel Parker & Paul Green**

Marie & Richard Grimes

Nancy & Keith Hauge

Megan & James Hagmann

Emilie & John Higgins

Natalie Hoag

Lori & Sean Hunter

Deno Kidde

Laurie & Thomas Kitchens

Nancy Porras-Knight & Dr. Anthony Knight

Kathryn Krusel

Luisa Lardizabal

Bruce Lucas

Dr. Douglas McDonald

The Rev. Margaret McCauley

Robert McQuinn

Catherine & William Milne

Maria & Wallace Novack

Michelle Reiner

Carol & Richard Reznichek

Leonor Saa

Irene & John Sharpe

St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, Malibu

Cynthia Sherman & John Stipanov

David Traslavina

United Way

Kathleen and Sage Vaughn

Valerie Well

Jennifer & Anthony Stanley

Cynthia Sherman & John Stipanov

Jill & Daniel Tauber

Marilyn & Ronald Trepp

Valerie & Robert Weil