History Main / OrphanageOfLove

[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]* St. Gabriel's Home for Orphan Girls in the original ''Film/AngelsInTheOutfield'' is definitely this.

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* The Yorkburg Female Orphan Asylum in ''Mary Cary, Frequently Martha'' would qualify, especially after the arrival of Miss Katherine, who comes to live there and work as a nurse without a salary and makes a lot of changes: better food, nicer Christmases, and improvements via some donations s from her rich brother.
* In the ''Literature/DreambloodDuology'', there's the Hetawa's House of Children. Everyone seems to come out of it as HappilyAdopted, as it provides for and educates children who would otherwise have had to grow up in poverty and on their own.
* Deconstructed a bit in ''Literature/DresdenFiles.'' Harry, who lived in one, points out that no matter how kind the people in the system are to you, it is still a system with lots of people to deal with.
* In the ''Literature/GirlsOfTheGoodDayOrphanage'' series, the eponymous orphanage is one of these. They do have to deal with a stingy financial manager who tut-tuts at what he sees as "frivolities" (things like good food and toys), but the women who are actually in charge of caring for the girls are basically surrogate parents to them. In one book where the two women both have to be away for a while, the woman they bring in as a substitute caregiver is equally kind and loving, notably helping one girl who has low self-esteem realize that YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre by making a point of recognizing the things she does right (for example, when the girl makes some mistakes in a spelling test, the woman praises her for how many she got right rather than criticize her for the ones she got wrong).
* Rani from ''Literature/BornBehindBars'' ends up in one, run by a woman who goes by Viji Aunty. Because being indoors makes her feel trapped, she's allowed to sleep in a tent in the yard with other kids like her and have her lessons under a tree. The adults are kind, and there's enough food for everyone.

* Played with in Argentinian soap-opera ''Chiquititas''. It starts as a true orphanage of love, all the girls get to eat good food, sweets, a nice place to sleep and go to school. However, as soon as the plot starts marching on and the real reason for why the orphanage was built on the first place is revealed to both the characters and the viewers, it slowly descends into an OrphanageOfFear. Then, when the BigGood finally gets full control of the orphanage by the third season, it goes back to orphanage of love again.

* ''Sister Kate'' features a bunch of kids who are living quite happily in an orphanage with the titular Sister Kate, who is hired to look after them after they ran off the home's last caretaker.

* From ''[[VideoGame/{{Yakuza}} Yakuza 3]]'' onwards, Kazuma runs one in Okinawa. His kids have a loving father figure who feeds them, gives them shelter, educates them and overall is one cool dad... and if someone messes with them, [[NoHoldsBarredBeatDown he'll savagely beat them til they puke their sternum out]].
** Kazuma himself, along with Nishiki and Yumi, among others, were raised in Sunflower Orphanage, which seems to be regarded fondly by all of them. That it was evidently a caring environment is especially surprising considering [[spoiler: it was founded/run by a yakuza hitman to house the children he orphaned in the course of his business.]]
* The [[spoiler:entire playable party (plus Seifer, minus Rinoa)]] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' grew up in one. [[spoiler:GF-induced amnesia made everyone except Irvine forget]].
* Milla Vodello in ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' has a backstory where she worked in one of these. Until [[spoiler:the orphans tragically died in a fire, an event that haunts her subconscious to this day]].

* This is in [[spoiler:Kou Ichijo's]] backstory in ''VideoGame/Persona4''. [[spoiler: This causes him to be looked down by some members of the family who adopted him.]]
* ''VideoGame/Persona3'' implies that Akihiko Sanada and Shinjiro Aragaki also grew up in one; in Akihiko's Social Link in the PSP release of the game, he mentions that the orphanage lacked good food and toys, but everyone was well-taken care of.
* The third world in ''VideoGame/MysticArk'' could essentially be summed up as this ([[spoiler: Even though they never had parents to begin with and Cecille (the caretaker) created everything from the ground up with the help of the Wisdom Ark]]), though for a good half of the time you spend in that world, Chimera, influencing Cecile, turns it into the opposite, especially during the final part of your visit there when the orphanage is overrun by monsters.
* In ''VideoGame/MSSagaANewDawn'', the hero and his cowardly sidekick were raised in one, complete with the kind, matronly caretaker. [[spoiler: Of course, this being Gundam-related, it gets attacked by Zakus and burned down with everyone but the two of them inside.]]
* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' both the horde and the alliance both have an orphanage in their capital cities for children who lost their parents due to the war. Both are run by caring and loving women, and they all seem to have lots of fun there. And once a week every year they host a holiday event whee players take a kid on a world wide trip to give them a perfect day out.
** Unfortunately, the LordBritishPostulate extends to these kindly matrons. When they relocate to take their charges trick-or-treating, some of the less desirable elements may target the matrons.
* [[spoiler: Hanako Ikezawa]] from ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' lived there until she came to Yamaku. There's a subversion, though: [[spoiler: while the staff treated Hanako kindly, she was kind of a ParentalSubstitute for the youngest children in her last days there ''and'' she got to enjoy the place's small library, she still couldn't make friends, and it didn't keep her from being bullied ''outside'' of it in her middle school years.]]
* In the backstory of ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'', there was one in Tien's Landing. The monstrous Emperor decided to flood the town while the orphan-keeper was out buying food. He tried to save his orphans, but failed to get them all out. Ten years later, the ghosts of the orphans want peace and the old man is still beating himself up and drowning his sorrows at the tavern over his failure. Your Spirit Monk can allow him to be killed by the angry ghosts, or earn a heartwarming moment by allowing the old man to make amends by giving the tots a proper burial.

* Rutee Katrea of ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny'' grew up in the Dunamis orphanage, and her desire to help them out financially drives her money-seeking ways. After the events of the game, she and Stahn get married and eventually take over running it-- their biological son Kyle even takes "Dunamis" as a surname so that the other orphans don't feel left out.
* Court Seim from ''VideoGame/WildARMs1'' is a village full of orphans who are clearly loved and cared for, while doing their best to keep things running. [[spoiler: It turns out to be the real reason Jane is so focused on getting as much money as possible. She's the orphanage's breadwinner and she sticks with the job because the orphans see her as a CoolBigSis.]]

* In ''VisualNovel/{{Demonbane}}'', Sister Leica runs one in the church she's in charge of, taking care of three orphaned kids. They all adore her, and she treats them as though they were her own children.

* In ''Webcomic/DisneyHighSchool,'' several characters (WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}, [[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} Flynn]], WesternAnimation/PeterPan) live at the Good Home for Lost Boys, run by [[WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons Cornelius and Franny Robinson]]. It hasn't been seen on-page yet, but they're dishing out money for their kids to attend a fancy private school, so it's clearly a nice place.

* The Cookieville Minimum Security Orphanarium from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' is as close as it gets to this trope, operating in a CrapsackWorld on a shoestring budget. All of Leela's memories of the place are good (save for the teasing about her eye), the director genuinely cares about the kids and he generally works hard on making them happy and finding them new parents. Of course, this being ''Futurama'', it's more of a HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood that Leela has fond memories of in a manner similar to Phoebe (and some other folks) in ''Series/{{Friends}}'', complete with much of the humor coming from her ''talking'' of it as if it were great fun. For ''one'' example of what it's really like, they didn't have any books... because they ate them to avoid starvation since they didn't have any food. Leela also remembers genuinely fondly of how the warden used to tell her "You're worthless and no-one will ever love you!"

* The San Lorenzo orphanage in ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfPussInBoots'': Señora Zapata might seem strict and bossy, but she genuinely wants what's best for the kids, and Dulcinea is there to soften her sharp edges. Taken to extremes in "Lost and Foundlings": the first time someone actually wants to adopt one of the orphans, Zapata and Duclinea are in tears at the thought of losing one of them, while doing a hilariously bad job of showing a brave face for the sake of the children. [[spoiler: None of them want to leave either, and in the end the prospective parent moves into the orphanage!]]
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' episode "The Big Candy Store" features an orphanage lovingly run by a sweet Irish nun. The mean candy store owner Mr. Flaxseed's refusal to donate candy to the kids for Easter sets him up for karmic retribution from the Warner siblings -- and when the Irish nun and her fellow sisters see him mistreating the Warners, they unleash some serious MamaBear payback of their own.

* Same to the one Nadja lived in at the beginning of ''Anime/AshitaNoNadja''. [[spoiler: When Miss Applefield dies in an accident, however, it's dismantled.]]
* The Maxwell Church from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'' was very poor, but otherwise it did well and was run by the kind Father Maxwell and his assistant Sister Helen. [[spoiler: Pity it was blown up in the war and the only survivor, Duo, was [[BrokenHero quite traumatised]].]]
* In ''Anime/CowboyBebop'': [[spoiler:Ed was raised in one of these. Her father is actually alive, but is such a flake that it really was the better living situation for her.]]

* [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Epsilon]] of ''Manga/{{Pluto}}'' runs one of these for human war orphans.
* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'':
** Tohma from ''Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce'' was sent to one of these after his hometown was destroyed. He would have gone on to be HappilyAdopted if the plot hadn't come along.
** Rinne and Fuka from ''Anime/VividStrike'' spent their early years in an orphanage run by the Saint Church, though both have left by the time the story starts.

* ''Music/{{Tsukipro}}'''s Issei and Ichiru grew up on one of these, more or less. The people there were kind, and took the kids on picnics with octopus hot dogs, that they nicknamed "tako-tako-kun". When the twins star in a play after moving to Tokyo and becoming idols, the caretakers from the orphanage come to see their play, and are happy for them.
* ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' - Wolfwood grew up in one of these... which is ironic since it is a TykeBomb group, in the anime, at least. The manga plays it much straighter, as the TykeBomb organization is an entirely separate entity. We even get to see Wolfwood go back and see them, [[spoiler: [[RapidAging except the kids haven't grown up as much as he has]].]]
* It's implied that Father Anderson is the head of one of these in ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}''. Since for most of the series we see him being a monster-hunting BloodKnight zealot, seeing him treat the children with actual gentleness and kindness is something of a shock. The kids at the orphanage, in turn, seem to love him dearly, and some of the members of his Iscariot Organization are people who grew up in his orphanage.
* In ''Manga/FutureDiary'' the orphanage that the 8th runs seems to be one of these, considering how far her kids go to protect her. And she seems willing to fight for the sake of the kids as well.

* While not an actual orphanage, the majority of the wizards in the title guild of ''Manga/FairyTail'' are teens or young adults without family ties, who have come to look at the guild as their family. A lot of them have even been there since they were small children.

* ''Anime/DeathNote'': Whether Wammy's House is this or an OrphanageOfFear zigzags depending on which way your Fanon leans. Whichever way, the place cranks out {{Tyke Bomb}}s like it's manufacturing them... While Mello, Near, and L seem to have been content with the place, others (like A and Beyond) are not so fortunate. It seems to depend on what level of TykeBomb you are.
* In ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'', Earl's Pokémon Academy doubles as this. As the place was low on funds and falling apart, Crystal decided to work for Professor Oak to pay for everything the kids needed. [[spoiler:Her selfless attitude inspires Emerald to become a Pokedex Holder.]]

* In ''Anime/CombattlerV'', [[TheHero Hyouma Aoi]] was raised in one that was run by a kindly nun. It certainly explains how ''badly'' he takes [[BigBrotherInstinct seeing children in risk.]]
* Subverted in ''Manga/OnePiece'': [[spoiler: Charlotte "Big Mom" Linlin spent some time in one run by the famous BadassPreacher Mother Carmel... but in reality, Carmel was a slave trader who took in unwanted kids to then sell them to pirates and the Marines. She wanted to pawn off [[PersonOfMassDestruction Linlin]] to the highest bidder, so she took the ''incredibly'' big and powerful little girl in and pretended to love her while enabling [[CreepyChild her worst habits]]... and during Linlin's sixth birthday it bit her and the other orphans in the ass. [[ImAHumanitarian Lite]][[CannibalismSuperpower rally]].]]
* {{Subverted}} in ''Manga/ThePromisedNeverland:'' Grace Field House seems to be this, with thirty-eight happy children and a loving caretaker whom they all call "Mom." However, the FirstEpisodeTwist reveals that the facility is actually [[PeopleFarms a human farm]], and all the kids who get "adopted" are actually [[FedToTheBeast eaten by demons]].
* This is how red bone marrow is depicted in ''Manga/CellsAtWork.'' A chapel-like structure where blood progenitor cells are lovingly tended by Macrophages, depicted as maids, and White corpuscles, depicted as stark-white policemen.
* Yurii Orhanage, the former home of the heroine ''Spirits'' in ''Manga/{{Shy}}''.
* Despite how much of a CrapsackWorld the story holds to, ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'' consistently shows the various temples dedicated to gods that take in orphans to be happy and loving places, with the ones raised there going on to be happy and well-adjusted people, with them only having bad experiences once they leave to experience the world. Priestess maintains great relationships with her fellow Earth Mother clergy, and while Chosen Heroine's rambunctious personality meant the God of Trade's priestesses had to be a bit stern in raising her, she still has fond memories of her childhood.
* ''Manga/BlueRamun'': The Lezak District Orphanage might be run by a hardass, but the children are well treated — and most importantly, the Orphanage pays the medical taxes that enable their wards to be cared for by Lezak's [[HealingHands Blue Doctor]]. The orphanage becomes a point of focus in Chapter 5, when a young girl from the Salaam slums goes to desperate lengths to get the orphanage to take in her terminally ill little brother, despite the fact that their good-for-nothing father is still in the picture.

* In the ''ComicBook/New52'' reboot of Franchise/{{Batman}}, the ultimate [[ComicBook/NightOfTheOwls Talon]], [[spoiler:Bruce Wayne's self-claimed ''brother'' Thomas Wayne Junior]] was seriously injured in his youth and sent to a prominent children's hospital by his parents to recover in secret. Thanks to the Waynes' funding, the hospital fit this trope. Sadly, when they were killed the funding dried up and the hospital became an OrphanageOfFear. Talon wants revenge on Bruce [[spoiler:for their parents' deaths which lead directly to his life becoming a living hell.]] At least, [[UnreliableNarrator that's his story]], Batman points out several flaws in it, but never learns the truth either way.
* Midway Orphanage in ''Batman/Superman: World's Finest'' (1990 miniseries), at least [[spoiler: once a crook stops being a co-manager]].
* An example can be found in the UsefulNotes/WorldWarI serial ''ComicBook/GoldenEyesAndHerHeroBill''- after selling off the jewelry and miscellaneous {{Plunder}} she "reclaimed" from the German officer who tried to shoot her, Golden Eyes finds she has "enough and more in [her] small fist to provide for around hundred French babies—orphaned by War!" The next paragraph finds her at a "beautiful chateau," far from the front lines, surrounded by happy children who call her "petite maman." It's unclear whether or not Golden Eyes founded the orphanage or if she's just a generous benefactor, as the war orphans are never mentioned again.[[note]] The installment functions as a sort of a BreatherEpisode (and a chance for Golden Eyes to PetTheDog even more than she usually does) after her capture by the above-mentioned German officer, which resulted in a combination IHaveYouNowMyPretty/ GoGoEnslavement/ CaptiveDate arc, followed by a JustInTime rescue from Golden Eyes' sweetheart and their CanineCompanion when she's moments away from being executed for espionage. [[/note]]

* The Vasquez' foster home in ''ComicBook/Shazam2012'' technically qualifies since they're considered a group home by the state. They consider themselves a FamilyOfChoice though.

* [[Fanfic/SkyholdAcademyYearbook Skyhold Academy]], a BoardingSchool in [[Franchise/DragonAge Thedas]], is actually something very much like this, but they keep it secret from most people. The students who board there during the school year are either orphans or come from abusive backgrounds, and the school is on a mission to rescue them and give them a safe place to grow up.

[[folder:Films -- Animation]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheCareBearsMovie'' has as its framing device a man named Mr. Cherrywood telling a bedtime story to kids at an orphanage. From what little we see of it, the children seem to love the staff.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsAZucchini'' follows Icare/Courgette being sent to a foster home called Fontaine's after his abusive mother dies. Fortunately for Courgette and the other kids, who are all victims of traumatic experiences, Fontaine's is a safe place with friendly staff.

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]

* St. Gabriel's Home for Orphan Girls in the original ''Film/AngelsInTheOutfield'' is definitely this.
** So is the foster home in the remake.

* The UN refugee camp for displaced children in ''Film/TheSearch'', run by hardworking, kindly Mrs. Murray, who is trying to find homes for children displaced by UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.

* ''Film/MadameRosa'': Madame Rosa runs an unlicensed orphanage in her own apartment. But she plainly loves her little charges, as shown by how tenderly she [[ComfortingComforter tucks them in]].
* ''Film/DeadAgain'': It's implied the orphanage Grace ends up at when she loses her memory is this; Mike Church actually grew up in the orphanage, and he took the case of trying to find out what happened to Grace as a favor to Father Tim, who runs the orphanage, because he credits the priest for helping straighten him out. Of course, that's ToughLove, but Mike seems to have nothing but fond memories of the place.
* Also implied in ''Film/UntamedHeart'', at least as far as where Adam is concerned. The nuns take care of him all the time because he's sick, and read to him the story of how he (supposedly) got his heart.

* Creator/LouisaMayAlcott had a few:
** When Aunt March dies in ''Literature/LittleWomen'', she bequeaths her enormous estate of Plumfield to Jo. Jo and her husband Fritz turn it into Plumfield Estate School, a {{boarding school}} for young men in need (some of them orphans), and it forms the setting of the sequel novel ''Little Men''.
** In ''Rose in Bloom'', the sequel to ''Literature/EightCousins'', the now-grown Rose decides to use a large portion of her inherited wealth to establish the Rose Garden, which is one of these.
* In ''Literature/JaneEyre'', Jane gets sent off to Lowood - a boarding school that is basically for orphans and poor children - which goes from an Orphanage of Fear to Orphanage of Love over time.
* Jean Webster's book ''[[Literature/DaddyLongLegs Dear Enemy]]'' is composed of letters written to various people about the goings-on after the heroine takes on the responsibility of an orphanage, which used to border on OrphanageOfFear until she came along. The "Enemy" of the title is the doctor with whom the heroine cannot get along ([[{{UST}} for most of the book, at least]]). The orphanage suffers from a lack of staff and money, but at least manages to get some community support when [[spoiler: a fire burns the place down and the orphans get sheltered with various townsfolk for a while]].
* The orphanage in ''Adopt-A-Ghost'' certainly applies, to the point at which the children love the matron and other orphans so much that they try to ''avoid'' being adopted if possible..
* ''Which Witch?'', [[spoiler:at the end when the old matron-turned spider is replaced by a sweeter woman]].

%%* The orphanage/boarding school Georgie is sent to in ''Literature/TheLotteryRose'' would qualify.
* In ''Literature/BratFarrar'' by Creator/JosephineTey, the protagonist's backstory features such an orphanage:
-->It was a very good orphanage; a great deal happier than many a home he had seen in passing since. The children had loved it. They had wept when they left and had come back for visits; they had sent contributions to the funds; they had invited the staff to their marriages, and brought their subsequent children for the matron's approval. There was never a day when some old girl or boy was not cluttering up the front door.
* Mother Karen's home in ''Literature/{{Spellbent}}'' and ''Shotgun Sorceress'' by LucySnyder is one of these. Mother Karen herself rivals [[Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood Fred Rogers]] in the "Friend to all children" category and is unfailingly kind even when monumentally stressed out. What she can't do, she relies on the teenage orphans (raised under her sterling example, of course) to do.
* In Creator/JohnCWright's ''Literature/ChroniclesOfChaos'', the boarding school straddles the line between this and OrphanageOfFear. On the one hand, they are treated affectionately and given an excellent education. On the other hand, the teachers are under orders to kill them if they start remembering things.
* The foundling hall in Michelle Sagara's ''Literature/ChroniclesOfElantra'' is run by a caring and fiercely protective [[ProudWarriorRace Leontine woman]] who treats the orphans as her own and does everything she can to keep them well fed, well clothed, and well educated.

* Downplayed in Steve Berry's ''Literature/TheThirdSecret''. The Romanian orphanage is... a Romanian orphanage. But the nuns and priest who run it are very kind. There just isn't enough money. Fr. Tibor's holding the place together with Scotch tape and rosary beads [[spoiler: before he's murdered. But Fr. Colin is inspired to make the orphanage his life's mission, and he's bringing his considerable personal fortune with him.]]

* In ''Literature/{{Hours}}'', Bethel Woods Orphanage is well run and well funded, even providing an allowance for performing extra chores. Just don't talk about "shimmerings", the mysterious program that children are randomly selected for when they reach a certain age.
* Numerous implied ones in the web-novel ''Literature/{{Domina}}''. With the exceptions of Derek, Laura, and Akane, pretty much everyone born in the city is an orphan (and even those three are missing one parent each), so orphanages are discussed in the same way parents are discussed in normal cities. The kids complain about their patrons and matrons, but clearly feel safe enough to go back to them at the end of the day. It probably helps that the local ReasonableAuthorityFigure has a habit of completely annihilating anyone who harms children.

* ''Anime/HanaNoKoLunlun'' has the heroine running across one in the South Italian countryside (not exactly mentioned ''where'' in Italy, but considering she had just left Sicily, it could be anywhere in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabria Calabria]]), run by a nun named Sister Mariana and with kids from the age range of 5 to 15. The eldest children, lead by the HotBlooded Emilio, fret over cute little Lucero's IllGirl condition and desperately seek for the money they need for her operation, so they're overjoyed when there are rumors about a hidden treasure coming from UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. [[spoiler: It wasn't a treasure... but an old ''bomb''.]]

* Hatoful House, in the backstory of ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'', was a bit short on money. There were thirteen [[UpliftedAnimal birds]] and a caretaker there, and medicine cost much more than food. Older orphans would contribute by working and bringing their salaries back. Still, the [[IllGirl Ill Boy]] worried about being a burden aside, they were happy. [[spoiler: Everyone there was a war orphan, their parents killed by humans. It's human terrorists who came and killed most of them.]]

** ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton'': Although Superman was dickish enough to put his cousin ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} in an orphanage after her arrival, at least he cared enough to make sure the Midvale Orphanage was really nice. Nonetheless, it was retconned in ''ComicBook/Supergirl1982'' that Kara hated the place.

* Midway Orphanage in ''Batman/Superman: World's Finest'' (1990 miniseries), at least [[spoiler: once TheFagin is no longer a co-manager]].

* The orphanage [[LightNovel/SagaOfTanyaTheEvil Tanya von Degurechaff]] was raised in is identified as this in ''FanFic/AYoungWomansPoliticalRecord'' and ''FanFic/AYoungGirlsDelinquencyRecord''. In the former, despite starting out as a sociopath, Tanya acknowledges the nuns were always devoted to the children and makes it a point to either send gifts or drop by herself when she has the time; in the latter, an investigation is briefly launched into their finances after the immense success of the film ''Arene'', which depicts the brutal conditions of the orphanage, until the nuns produce the financial records and show how little money they had to work with and that everyone helped in every way they could.

* This is in [[spoiler:Kou Ichijo's]] backstory in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}''. [[spoiler: This causes him to be looked down by some members of the family who adopted him.]]
* ''{{VideoGame/Persona 3}}'' implies that Akihiko Sanada and Shinjiro Aragaki also grew up in one; in Akihiko's Social Link in the PSP release of the game, he mentions that the orphanage lacked good food and toys, but everyone was well-taken care of.

** Before ''Awakening'' took place, there was the orphanage in [[VideoGame/FireEmblemJugdral Genealogy of the Holy War]] where Patty and Faval (or their [[ExPy expies]] Daisy and Asaello) used to live. Either Patty or Daisy will become a thief to help feeding the kids, while either Faval or Asaello will be hired by the enemy nobleman Bloome under the promise of getting enough money to sustain it. Both can be recruited into the group.
** In ''Thracia 776'', [[spoiler: Misha works for the Silesse army to help feeding and raising the children of one of these. She can be recruited into the main group, however.]]
** In ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemElibe Blazing Blade's]]'' epilogue, Lucius [[{{Expy}} (who Libra above was based on)]] also opens an orphanage, [[spoiler: what with him being a war orphan as well]]. It's implied to be the same one that Nino's children, Lugh and Raigh, grew up in between that game and ''Sword of Seals'', [[spoiler: which unfortunately [[DoomedByCanon doesn't bode well for Lucius]], since that orphanage was destroyed during Bern's invasion. (The ''closest'' to a subversion of this bad ending would be his shared one with his master Raymond aka Raven, in which Lucius remains as Raven's vassal as they go WalkingTheEarth.)]]

* Rutee Katrea of VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny grew up in the Dunamis orphanage, and her desire to help them out financially drives her money-seeking ways. After the events of the game, she and Stahn get married and eventually take over running it-- their biological son Kyle even takes "Dunamis" as a surname so that the other orphans don't feel left out.
* Court Seim from ''VideoGame/WildARMs1'' is a village full of orphans who are clearly loved and cared for, while doing their best to keep things running. [[spoiler: It turns out to be the real reason Jane is so focused on getting as much money as possible. She's the orphanage's breadwinner and she sticks with the job because the orphans see her as a [[CoolBigSis Cool Big Sis.]]]]

[[folder:Web Comics]]

* [[TheHero Rosette]] and [[IllBoy Joshua]] Christopher from ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'' grew up in an OrphanageOfLove named Seventh Bell after their parent's deaths. It's very understaffed (seeming to only have a single aging woman named Ms. Jean watching the kids) so the orphans seem to end up doing a lot of the chores, but they're well taken care of and seem to be spoiled rotten. It seemed like the ideal place for them to live, until [[ComesGreatInsanity Joshua went insane]] [[DealWithTheDevil when he put a pair of demon's horns on his head]], [[WhereIWasBornAndRazed destroyed the orphanage]] and [[TakenForGranite froze all of the orphans and Ms. Jean in stone]].

* St. Helen of the Blessed Shroud Orphanage is, despite being run by The Penguin, an OrphanageOfLove. It must be, because ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'' wouldn't have [[SavingTheOrphanage risked everything to save it]] otherwise. They also found out that their mentor, Curtis, would be thrown out on the street once the sale of the orphanage was final.

* In ''Literature/KushielsLegacy'', Imriel grows up in a [[OrphanageOfLove temple of Elua]], and although his mother is alive he doesn't learn this until much later.

* Whether ''Anime/{{Death Note}}'''s Wammy's House is this or an OrphanageOfFear zigzags depending on which way your Fanon leans. Whichever way, the place cranks out [[TykeBomb Tyke Bombs]] like it's manufacturing them... Actually, it is.
** While Mello, Near, and L seem to have been content with the place, others (like A and Beyond) are not so fortunate. It seems to depend on what level of TykeBomb you are.

* The Lezak District Orphanage in ''Manga/BlueRamun'' might be run by a hardass, but the children are well treated — and most importantly, the Orphanage pays the medical taxes that enable their wards to be cared for by Lezak's [[HealingHands Blue Doctor]]. The orphanage becomes a point of focus in Chapter 5, when a young girl from the Salaam slums goes to desperate lengths to get the orphanage to take in her terminally ill little brother, despite the fact that their good-for-nothing father is still in the picture.

* The Belgium comic book series ''ComicBook/{{Orphanimo}}!'' is all about an orphanage of love. The last five orphans living there love the place and its owner so much, they sabotage every attempt of the owner to find them adoptive parents. A rich and powerful industrialist however wants to buy the orphanage to use the ground for his latest building. The orphans, of course, try to prevent this in every way possible.
* For Franchise/{{Superman}}, the Smallville Orphanage (where the Kents left him at, before returning to formally adopt him) was usually also shown as such.
* In the ComicBook/{{New 52}} reboot of Franchise/{{Batman}}, the ultimate [[Comicbook/NightOfTheOwls Talon]], [[spoiler:Bruce Wayne's self-claimed ''brother'' Thomas Wayne Junior]] was seriously injured in his youth and sent to a prominent children's hospital by his parents to recover in secret. Thanks to the Waynes' funding, the hospital fit this trope. Sadly, when they were killed the funding dried up and the hospital became an OrphanageOfFear. Talon wants revenge on Bruce [[spoiler:for their parents' deaths which lead directly to his life becoming a living hell.]] At least, [[UnreliableNarrator that's his story]], Batman points out several flaws in it, but never learns the truth either way.

* In the ''Girls Of The Good Day Orphanage'' series, the eponymous orphanage is one of these. They do have to deal with a stingy financial manager who tut-tuts at what he sees as "frivolities" (things like good food and toys), but the women who are actually in charge of caring for the girls are basically surrogate parents to them. In one book where the two women both have to be away for a while, the woman they bring in as a substitute caregiver is equally kind and loving, notably helping one girl who has low self-esteem realize that YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre by making a point of recognizing the things she does right (for example, when the girl makes some mistakes in a spelling test, the woman praises her for how many she got right rather than criticize her for the ones she got wrong).

* In the ''Girls Of The Good Day Orphanage'' series, the eponymous orphanage is one of these. They do have to deal with a stingy financial manager who tut-tuts at what he sees as "frivolities" (things like good food and toys), but the women who are actually in charge of caring for the girls are basically surrogate parents to them.

* The orphanage [[LightNovel/SagaOfTanyaTheEvil Tanya von Degurechaff]] was raised in is identifies as this in ''FanFic/AYoungWomansPoliticalRecord'' and ''FanFic/AYoungGirlsDelinquencyRecord''. In the former, despite starting out as a sociopath, Tanya acknowledges the nuns were always devoted to the children and makes it a point to either send gifts or drop by herself when she has the time; in the latter, an investigation is briefly launched into their finances after the immense success of the film ''Arene'', which depicts the brutal conditions of the orphanage, until the nuns produce the financial records and show how little money they had to work with and that everyone helped in every way they could.

* The orphanage Tanya von Degurechaff is identifies as this in ''FanFic/AYoungWomansPoliticalRecord'' and ''FanFic/AYoungGirlsDelinquencyRecord''. In the former, despite starting out as a sociopath, Tanya acknowledges the nuns were always devoted to the children and makes it a point to either send gifts or drop by herself when she has the time; in the latter, an investigation is briefly launched into their finances after the immense success of the film ''Arene'', which depicts the brutal conditions of the orphanage, until the nuns produce the financial records and show how little money they had to work with and that everyone helped in every way they could.

* The orphanage/boarding school Georgie is sent to in ''The Lottery Rose'' would qualify.

* Also implied in ''Untamed Heart'', at least as far as where Adam is concerned. The nuns take care of him all the time because he's sick, and read to him the story of how he (supposedly) got his heart.

* Plumfield Estate School, the orphanage/school that Jo and her husband run in Louisa May Alcott's ''[[Literature/LittleWomen Little Men]]''.

* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'', but with imaginary friends whose owners have grown-up and left them. It has a surprisingly very very very small staff for such a one-of-a-kind place, but everyone there generally enjoys their stay. Mr. Harriman and Mrs. Foster are essentially administrators. Many of the orphaned friends do a lot of work to keep the place running, though Frankie has to take up the slack.

*** Kazuma himself, along with Nishiki and Yumi, among others, were raised in Sunflower Orphanage, which seems to be regarded fondly by all of them. That it was evidently a caring environment is especially surprising considering [[spoiler: it was founded/run by a yakuza hitman to house the children he orphaned in the course of his business.]]