Your choice can save lives
Generous Compensation
Meaningful pay for a meaningful gift. Compensation for egg donation begins at $6,700, with opportunities to earn more as you continue donating. Our payment structure is designed to honor your time, commitment, and generosity.
We Cover Every Step of Your Care
We cover all costs associated with your care, to ensure a safe, supportive experience. Choosing to become an egg donor means giving hope to individuals and couples who otherwise may not be able to grow their family.
Your generosity helps others overcome medical or genetic challenges and experience the joy of parenthood. Each donation has a profound and lasting impact on the lives of those you help.
A Program You Can Trust
You deserve to feel safe and cared for throughout this journey. Our team has been supporting egg donors for decades, and our longtime nurses know how to make each step clear, comfortable, and centered on your well-being.
Donation Compensation
You’ll receive $6,700 for each completed donation cycle, and eligible donors may donate up to six times – an opportunity to earn up to $40,200 while helping families grow. You will receive compensation after completing your first egg retrieval.
Repeat donors earn increased compensation, making continued donations even more rewarding.
Who uses donor eggs?
At the Center for Reproductive Medicine, we frequently see patients who cannot produce eggs likely to result in a successful pregnancy. This occurs for a wide variety of reasons, including:
- Premature menopause
- Side-effects from cancer therapy
- Genetic diseases
- Advancing maternal age
In such situations, an egg donor can share the ultimate gift: the opportunity to help someone to build the family they’ve dreamed of by carrying a child and experiencing the miracle of birth. When using donor eggs, egg donor treatment is one of the most successful ART treatments.
What to expect during the process
Step 1
Apply to Become a Donor
Start with a simple assessment to confirm egg donation is a safe and healthy choice. If you meet the donor requirements, you’ll be matched with a Coordinator who will review your medical history, guide you through genetic screening, and help plan your next steps.
Step 2
Screening and Acceptance
You’ll complete a physical exam and psychological assessment and, if successful, be accepted as a donor. A non-identifying profile will be created for matching with recipients, and once matched, you’ll begin the ovarian stimulation process.
Step 3
Meet Your Coordinator
Your Donor Coordinator will keep you informed and supported every step of the way. Egg retrieval is a quick and painless procedure, performed with the utmost care to ensure it goes smoothly.
Step 4
Generous Compensation
Donors are generously reimbursed for their efforts each time a cycle is completed. Eligible donors are able to donate once to up to six times. On retrieval day, you will be reimbursed the full rate of $6,700.
“It’s science. But also your body, your emotions, your life, your dreams, your hopes, it’s everything.”
Mara
Donor Recipient and Mother
Egg donation requirements
To be an egg donor you must:
- Be between the ages of 21 and 33
- Have a BMI of less than 33
- Be a non-smoker
- Live within 2 hours of our Minneapolis clinic due to the necessity of frequent morning visits for vaginal ultrasounds and blood tests
Growing Rewards
Each donation increases your compensation
Donation
$6,700
Donation
$13,900
Donation
$20,600
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$27,300
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$34,000
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$40,700
Donor Testimonies
Egg Donor FAQ
Getting Started
How do I become a donor?
Please go to our website www.ivfmn.com and fill out the donor application. We will contact you within a few business days.
What can exclude me from the program?
There are some factors that can exclude you from the program such as drug use by you or a family member, genetic conditions and elevated body mass index or BMI.
Does my family have to know about this?
No. You will need accurate family medical history which may require interviewing family members if you do not know this information.
Compensation and Costs
How much does it pay?
Currently, our donors receive $6700.00 per retrieval.
When do I get paid?
You will receive the payment on the day of the retrieval (egg cultivation).
Do I need to pay for anything?
There are no charges for our donors.
Logistics and Support
Will I need someone to drive me to any of my appointments?
The only time a driver is needed in on the day of the egg retrieval procedure. The reason for a driver at this appointment is that you will be given anesthesia to remove the eggs and you cannot drive for 24 hours after anesthesia.
What are the clinic’s expectations of me?
Once you have committed yourself to a cycle with a recipient couple, we expect you to follow through with this commitment including being responsible for your appointment dates and times. You will need some flexibility with your appointment dates and times at the end of your cycle. We also would like you to be respectful of others within the clinic.
Privacy and Recipient Information
Will I be anonymous or will the child be able to contact me in 20 years?
You will be an anonymous donor. The recipient will know you by donor number only, along with seeing a baby photo of you.
Will I know if the recipient becomes pregnant?
Yes, if interested, you may know the pregnancy results 2 weeks after the retrieval is complete.
Will the recipient know what I look like?
The recipient will only see a baby picture of you. Our donor coordinators are the only ones that see your adult pictures and they will be the ones to match you with a recipient based on that picture.
Timeline and Commitment
How long does it take to be accepted into the donor program?
It depends on how motivated you are to move forward. There are a few items that need to be addressed but if you are accepted into the program and do the work up in a timely fashion, you can be an active donor within 2 months.
How long does one cycle take?
The typical cycle takes 8-12 days of injectable medications to be completed.
What time are the appointments?
All appointments are from 7 am to 10:30 am every day of the week, including weekends.
Can I do any of the appointments at my OB’s office?
No. All appointments will be at our Minneapolis office so our physicians can keep a close eye on your progress.
Medical Details
What kind of medications will I be using?
Everyone has a different protocol of medications prescribed by our doctors. The most used medications are birth control pills, Lupron, Follistim or Gonal F, Menopur, Ganirelix/Cetrotide, and HCG.
What are the side effects of the medications?
Some patients complain of bloating and breast enlargement as well as mood swings, others have no negative effects.
Are the medications oral or injections?
Both. There are oral birth control pills that give us control of your menstrual cycle, however, the rest of the medications are injectable. They are mostly subcutaneous, which is a small needle given under the skin on your abdomen. Our donor nurses will instruct you on how to give these injections to yourself.
What is a retrieval? Is there any discomfort associated with the egg retrieval?
The egg retrieval is the procedure where we remove the eggs from the ovaries. This is completed after the fertility medications have worked on the ovaries and the ovaries have grown multiple eggs. We do this procedure in our operating room. A physician will use an ultrasound-guided needle that passes through the vaginal wall to remove the eggs from the ovaries. You are asleep during the procedure.
Are there any potential side effects from the cycle itself?
The most common side effects are minor weight gain or water retention that may cause bloating, swelling or cramping. This will resolve on its own within 2-5 days. A less common side effect is Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome. Ovarian hyperstimulation (OHSS) is a complication of superovulation. It is an enlargement of your ovaries. It occurs in 1 to 5 percent of cycles. Our physicians monitor you very closely to decrease this potential side effect.
How many times do I need to be in Minneapolis?
You will have approximately 10 appointments in a months’ time. This is the reason we require you live less than 2 hours away from the clinic.
Do I need medical insurance?
No, you do not.
Do I have to have a child to donate my eggs?
No, you do not.
How do I learn to give myself shots?
You will be taught how to give yourself injections by one of the donor coordinators.
Could this affect my ability to have children in the future?
No. Donating your eggs as a young woman will not affect your ability to have children in the future. You will not deplete your egg supply by donating.
