Open Adoption & Family Services

Name

Open Adoption & Family Services

Legal name

Open Adoption & Family Services

Website

https://openadopt.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1985

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Adoption & Family Services

NAICS

Other Individual and Family Services (624190), Child and Youth Services (624110)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Child Day Care Services (8351)

akta.pro primary industry

Postpartum Newborn Care & Parent Education (NCS) (HSAAACAA)

Keywords

• Adoption services
• Pregnancy counseling
• Open adoption facilitation
• Post-adoption support
• Homestudy services

Headquarters

HQ city

Portland

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Adoptive parent fees: Fees charged to prospective adoptive parents for pre-adoption seminar ($695 per family), homestudy process, and ongoing services. These fees support the organization's operations while all-options counseling remains free for expectant/ birth parents.
2. Donations and charitable contributions: The organization accepts donations to support free all-options pregnancy counseling and unbiased reproductive health services. Donations are made through Boys & Girls Aid.
3. Service provider partnerships and trainings: Free presentations and webinars for service providers including state child welfare staff, hospital social workers, and healthcare professionals. While the trainings are free, they support referral pipelines and community relationships.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

OA&FS delivers unbiased all-options pregnancy counseling (parenting, abortion, adoption) for free to expectant and birth parents, and facilitates child-centered open adoptions by preparing and matching prospective adoptive families. It charges fees for the $695 pre-adoption seminar and homestudy process for adoptive parents, while providing ongoing post-placement support through community groups, retreats, and counselor-led events across Oregon and Washington (and nationwide via Zoom).

Product overview

Open Adoption & Family Services (OA&FS) is a nonprofit social services organization offering a comprehensive suite of adoption-related services. The core offering includes all-options pregnancy counseling (abortion, parenting, adoption), facilitated open adoption services connecting birth parents with adoptive families, and ongoing post-placement support. Key services include a pre-adoption seminar ($695), a waiting families pool with profile matching, virtual support groups for birth parents and adoptees, and training/webinars for service providers. OA&FS operates as a program of Boys & Girls Aid, licensed in Oregon and Washington, with offices in Portland, Eugene, and Seattle. Services are available nationwide via Zoom.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• All-Options Pregnancy Counseling Unbiased counseling services for people exploring all pregnancy options including parenting, abortion, and adoption. Provided free of charge to expectant and birth parents throughout the U.S. via offices in Portland, Eugene, and Seattle, and remotely via Zoom.
• Open Adoption Services
• Waiting Families Pool
• Pre-Adoption Seminar
• Service Provider Training and Webinars
• Virtual Birth Parent Group
• Adult Adoptee Affinity Group
• Waiting Family Pool Parties

Quantifiable outcome

• More than 1,500 adoptions completed since founding

Named customers2 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Boys & Girls AidcoreOthers · 1 January 2025As of 2025, OA&FS became a program of Boys & Girls Aid, a pro-choice nonprofit adoption agency that promotes diversity and inclusion. Boys & Girls Aid is a parent organization that provides operational support while OA&FS maintains its separate identity, values, and program integrity. Donations are processed through the Boys & Girls Aid website.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Bethany Christian Services: One of the largest nonprofit adoption and family services agencies in the U.S., offering domestic and international adoption, pregnancy counseling, and post-adoption support — directly comparable to OA&FS's full-service model.
• Planned Parenthood: National nonprofit providing pregnancy options counseling, abortion, and parenting referrals — a broad incumbent that intersects with OA&FS's all-options counseling mission though not its adoption specialization.
• Boys & Girls Aid: Parent organization of OA&FS and a larger nonprofit adoption agency promoting diversity and inclusion. Operates adoption and family services across a broader footprint, providing shared infrastructure and donor reach.

Emerging players

• Pact: Nonprofit specializing in adoption education and support for families of color, with a strong focus on open adoption and transracial adoption issues — overlapping OA&FS's open adoption and diversity positioning.
• Exhale (Pro-Voice): Nonprofit offering nonjudgmental after-abortion and pregnancy options support via text and talkline — overlapping OA&FS's pro-choice counseling mission though not adoption-focused.

Direct peers

• American Adoptions: Large national adoption agency facilitating domestic infant adoptions with structured intake, homestudy, and waiting family matching processes similar to OA&FS's pre-adoption seminar and waiting family pool.
• Adoptions Together: Mid-Atlantic nonprofit providing domestic adoption, pregnancy counseling, and post-adoption support, with a similar pro-choice, all-options philosophy to OA&FS.
• Gladney Center for Adoption: Established nonprofit adoption agency offering domestic and international adoption services, birth parent support, and post-adoption counseling — a comparable full-service peer in the adoption services category.
• Children's Home Society of California: California-based nonprofit adoption agency offering birth parent counseling, home studies, and open adoption facilitation — directly comparable in mission and service mix to OA&FS.
• All-Options Talkline: Nonprofit providing unbiased pregnancy options counseling via phone, chat, and text — directly comparable to OA&FS's all-options counseling mission and pro-choice philosophy.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCX1N7rZC6u2fgV34eiv-eaw
• Facebookfacebook.com/OpenAdoptionFS
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/open-adoption-&-family-services
• Instagraminstagram.com/openadopt

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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