Support HFS
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!
Ways to Support HFS
Make a Donation
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.
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.
Volunteer
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
Support Birth Mothers
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
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.
Special Gift 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, a lawyer, or a financial advisor. What legacy would you like to leave the world? Please contact us for more information.
Honor Someone with 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 member’s 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.
Donate Stocks
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
Suggested Donation Levels
Love Grows Here Sponsor: $5,000
Pays for rent for four birth mothers, or 25 fully supplied diaper bags for birth mothers who decide to parent.
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, monitoring five post-adoption visits between birth parents and the adoptive family, or a month’s stipend to short-term foster parents to give a 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 a birth mother’s prenatal doctor visits.
Associate Sponsor: $250
This is the group that started it all! The original core of support for HFS was started by Dolores Hope! Be part of this powerful legacy. Pays for six weeks of baby formula or 10 hours of post-adoption counseling for birth parents
Thank you for your support
July 2024 through June 2025 *HFS Board Member ** HFS Staff Member
$100,000+
The California Endowment
$75,000+
The Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation
$50,000+
The Adoption Guild of Southern California
$25,000+
Daniel M. Brennan Family
$10,000+
The Lawrence A. Appley Foundation, Inc.
Elaine Tumonis* and Edward De La Rosa
Los Angeles Episcopal Diocese: “One Body and One Spirit” Fund
The Mozilo Family Foundation
The Weingart Foundation
Marianne* & Matt Wright
$7,500+
Mary and Dr. Til Leipmann
Tran Ly & David Mozilo
Ellen Leggett & Joseph Zanetta*
$5,000+
Caiozzo Family Charitable Trust
Lee Graff Foundation
Debora Presson & Brad Howard
Paula Kendrick*
Kathleen McCarthy Kostlan (KLM Foundation)
Nancy Porras-Knight & Dr. Anthony Knight
Isabel & Richard Oxford
$2,500+
Bob & Carol Anderson
Carolyn Barnes
Kathleen & Michael Garvey
Mary* & John Hatton
Debora Presson & Brad Howard
I.U.O.E. Local #12 Charity Golf Tournament
The Larry and Mary Kent Charitable Fund
Ryan Harlow-Nakano* & Jeff Nakano
Gail Fischer & Ken Robbins
Judy & Dick Rubin
Nancy & George Rothwell
Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church, Glendale
Irene & John Sharpe
Ivana & Matthew Sumrow
$1,000+
Jane & Phillip Argento
Joanna & Scott Bauer
Nancy & Larry Collins
Disney Charities Aid Foundation
Carol & Brian Drake
Church of the Epiphany, Oak Park
Marti & John Farley
Pam & Stephen Fossler
Mary D. Giammona, MD
Pauline & Phillip Han
Mary* & John Hatton
Emilie and John Higgins Family Trust
Maria & Tom Horner
Lori and Sean Hunter
Nancy Kearney
Kelly & John Kelleher
Dr. Nan Heard & Dr. Paul Krogstad
Gregory Digler & Jeffrey Lawson*
Yayoi & Don Matsumiya
Joanne & Jim Morse
Donations Made in Honor of Claus Preute
Michelle Reiner
Kathy O’Connor & the Rt. Rev. John H. Taylor
SaraJane & John* Thies
Nina & Frank Vaccaro
Jo-Ann & Eric Verstraete
$500+
Christina & Philip Bailey
Irene & Fred Binggeli
David & Jerrod Borkes-Washington
Janine & Peter Boyle
Susan & The Rt. Rev. C. Franklin Brookhart
Julie** & Peter Brown
Julie & Ron Chase
Kenneth Chow
Beth & Paul Cohen
Gerald Cunha
Jon Courie
Deborah Newquist & Joseph Dimento
Mirea & Ozzie Garcia
Carol & Fred Gregory
Amy & Thomas Hanrahan
The Hohne Family Charitable Fund in honor of Sr. Bertile
Laurie & Thomas Kitchens
Pamela & Joseph Mendoza
Esther Parker
Susanne Podany
Judith Ragner
Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church Altadena
Marcy Sargenti
Pam Selber
Laurie Sherwood
Cynthia Sherman & John Stipanov
Yumi Takahashi
Carrie Ushiba
Monthly Donors
Ben Alig
Derek Alarid
Jennifer Bagoyo
Andrea & Felix Cordeiro-Benson
Laurel Parker & Paul Alan Green
The Rev. Kate Lewis & The Rev. Pat Hendrickson
Natalie Hoag
Yuchen Kao
Mary & Daniel Lehan
Corinne Basgall & Steve Ramirez
Circle of Hope Opportunity and Live Auction Donors
A Noise Within Theater
Jon Courie
Maria and Tom Horner
Barbara Horowitz & Brent Tufeld
Mary Kingman
Mara Lague
Tran Ly & David Mozilo
The Pasadena Playhouse
Nancy & George Rothwell
Marianne* & Matt Wright
Geoff and Alison Rusack and Rusack Vineyards, for donating wine for the Circle of Hope
