Egg Donation in Arizona
Arizona intended parents and egg donors work with Donor Nexus, an egg donation agency and FDA-registered frozen egg bank based a short flight away in Newport Beach.
Our egg donor agency and egg bank serving Arizona
Find an Egg Donor
Choose from more than 500 donor profiles. Your donor can travel to your Phoenix or Tucson clinic through our Fresh Matching Program, or frozen donor eggs can ship from our egg bank straight to your Arizona clinic.
Become an Egg Donor
Donate from Phoenix, Tucson, or anywhere in Arizona with screening at a provider near you, compensation you set yourself in the Fresh Matching Program, and travel costs covered.
How egg donation works in Arizona
For intended parents and egg donors in Phoenix, Tucson, and elsewhere in Arizona, Donor Nexus runs two programs. With the Fresh Matching Program, one donor is matched with one family and travels to that family's IVF clinic for her cycle, so Arizona families keep their own care team, and a donor in the Valley who matches with a family close by can often cycle near home. The Frozen Egg Bank works differently: donors have their retrieval at our partner site in Newport Beach, California, which is a short trip from Arizona, and the frozen eggs ship directly to clinics in Phoenix, Tucson, and throughout the United States, usually within four to six weeks. Our intended parent team and our donor team work alongside your clinic, and with each other, in both programs.
Donor eggs for Phoenix and Arizona intended parents
If you live in Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tucson, Mesa, or anywhere else in Arizona, you can use donor eggs from Donor Nexus without changing doctors. You keep your Arizona fertility clinic and physician, and you can choose any donor from our egg donor database of more than 500 profiles, wherever she lives. Through our Fresh Matching Program, we arrange your donor's travel so she can complete her cycle at your clinic, with her travel expenses included in the program pricing. Through our Frozen Egg Bank, eggs retrieved at our Newport Beach partner site ship directly to your clinic in Arizona. Each of our egg donor profiles lists where the donor lives, so you can look for a donor from the Southwest if that matters to your family.
Pricing depends on the program you choose and, for a fresh match, on the compensation your donor sets for herself. Every Donor Nexus donor sets her own compensation with guidance from our team, and our budget tiers show how that shapes your total: Core donors set compensation under $20,000, with total fees from $29,600 to $50,000; Select donors set $20,000 or more, with totals from $50,000 to $80,000+; and Signature donors, who set the highest compensation, have total fees from $100,000 and are priced individually. A cohort of six eggs from our Frozen Egg Bank ranges from $19,500 to $29,500. You'll receive a detailed cost estimate before you confirm a match, and your clinic's IVF and medical fees are billed separately. You can compare our donor egg programs side by side, register for free to browse the donor database, or book a complimentary call with one of our case managers, who will answer your questions and help you work out which program fits your family.
Does Arizona insurance cover donor eggs?
Arizona does not have a state law requiring insurers to cover infertility treatment or IVF, so whether any part of a donor egg cycle is covered depends on your employer's plan or any fertility benefit it offers. Donor compensation and agency fees are rarely covered, so ask your insurer or HR team exactly what your plan includes. Our guide to the cost of donor eggs walks through every fee, and our IVF grants page lists funding options many families use.
What to expect from the Fresh Matching Program in Arizona
In a fresh cycle you are matched one to one with a donor. She travels to your Arizona IVF clinic for her final monitoring and retrieval, and you receive every viable egg from that retrieval. Donor Nexus fresh cycles average 28.9 eggs retrieved and 22.6 mature eggs. A fresh cycle usually takes four to six months from match to retrieval, with most of that time spent on the donor's medical, genetic, and psychological screening.
Frozen donor eggs shipped to Phoenix and Tucson
Frozen donor eggs are available in cohorts of six and ship from our Southern California egg bank directly to your Arizona clinic, usually within four to six weeks of completed paperwork and payment. Each cohort comes with the blastocyst guarantee described on the Frozen Egg Bank page, and every shipment travels in a Cryoport dry shipper with continuous temperature monitoring from our lab to yours.
Can I use my own Arizona fertility clinic?
You can, because Donor Nexus works directly with your clinic, which means you keep your physician and care team for the transfer and your pregnancy, and your clinic does not need a prior relationship with us.
Fresh vs. frozen donor eggs for Arizona families
| Fresh Matching Program | Frozen Egg Bank |
|---|---|---|
For intended parents | All viable eggs from one retrieval (average 28.9 retrieved), four to six months, donor travels to your Arizona clinic | Cohort of six frozen eggs, four to six weeks to your Arizona clinic, blastocyst guarantee |
For donors | Matched with one family, you set your compensation with no cap, cycle at the family's clinic with travel covered | Retrieval at our Newport Beach partner site with travel covered, standardized compensation that rises with each donation, no family match required |
Donation types | Non-identified, identified, Open ID | Non-identified, Open ID |
Arizona fertility clinics we have worked with
We have coordinated fresh donor cycles or shipped frozen donor eggs to the Arizona IVF clinics below. If your clinic is not listed, let us know, because we work directly with any licensed IVF clinic that accepts outside donor eggs.
Arizona Center for Fertility Studies, Phoenix area
Bloom Reproductive Institute, Phoenix area
New Direction Fertility Centers, Scottsdale
Reproductive Health Center, Tucson
You can see every clinic we have worked with on our IVF clinic partners page. For our Donor Embryo Program, we partner exclusively with HRC Fertility in Southern California, and our step-by-step guide to the donor egg process shows what happens from registration through transfer.
Find a donor from anywhere
Our donors live across the U.S. and abroad, and because they travel to your clinic for a fresh cycle or their frozen eggs ship to it, where you live does not limit who you can choose. Register for free to browse profiles, or schedule a complimentary call if you would like to talk with our team first.
Become an egg donor in Arizona
Women in Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tempe, Tucson, and across Arizona ages 19 to 30 (exceptions considered for healthy applicants in their early 30s) with a BMI of 24.9 or under who don't smoke can apply online, and you can read more about how to become an egg donor with Donor Nexus before you start. Our egg donor requirements page explains each qualification for donating eggs and why it matters. Your screening labs and ultrasounds happen at a provider near you in Arizona, so travel is limited to the final days of your cycle. In the Fresh Matching Program you set your own compensation with guidance from our team and no cap, all of it goes directly to you, and travel, lodging, and a companion's costs are covered separately. Payment is held in escrow and released within five to seven days of retrieval.
Our team is made up of women close in age to the donors we work with, and many of them have donated through Donor Nexus themselves, which is a big part of why about 70% of our cycles come from repeat donors and referrals. If you don't have a companion for your retrieval, we can arrange a private nurse through our NurseRegistry partnership.
Egg banking for Arizona donors
Egg banking means donating to our Frozen Egg Bank instead of matching with one family. You complete your monitoring near home and then travel to our partner site in Newport Beach, California for the retrieval, with flights and lodging covered, and your eggs are frozen for intended parents to select later. Banking compensation is more standardized than fresh matching and increases with each donation; our egg donation page lists current figures. Many donors complete both a banking cycle and a fresh cycle over time.
What Arizona donors ask us
Where do I go for monitoring? During stimulation you have early-morning ultrasounds and blood draws at a clinic near you in Arizona, and Donor Nexus arranges the referral.
How much time away will I need? A fresh-cycle retrieval trip usually runs five to seven days, and if you are matched with a family whose clinic is in Arizona, your retrieval may happen in the same metro area where you live. For a banking cycle, the flight from Phoenix or Tucson to Newport Beach is short, and our donor team plans the dates with you around work or school.
Can I get paid to donate eggs in Arizona? Arizona donors are compensated for their time and for completing the medical process, and in our Fresh Matching Program you set that amount yourself with guidance from our team.
Can I refer a friend? Referrals are welcome from anyone, including women who have never donated, and our refer-a-friend program pays $1,000 when a donor you refer completes a retrieval, with no cap on the number of referrals.
Egg donation in Arizona: frequently asked questions
These are the questions we hear most often from Arizona intended parents and egg donors. For program details and pricing, visit our donor egg programs page, or if you are thinking about donating, start with how egg donation works.
If you live in the Phoenix area, you can use donor eggs from Donor Nexus at the clinic you already go to, and your Arizona physician continues to manage your care. In our Fresh Matching Program, your donor travels to your IVF clinic for her retrieval, and her travel expenses are included in the program pricing. In our Frozen Egg Bank, the eggs ship directly to your clinic in a temperature-monitored dry shipper. We work with any licensed IVF clinic that accepts outside donor eggs, and Arizona clinics we have worked with before include Arizona Center for Fertility Studies, Bloom Reproductive Institute, and New Direction Fertility Centers in the Phoenix area.
It depends on the program you choose and, for a fresh match, on the compensation your donor sets for herself. Fresh Matching Program fees start at $29,600, and our Core, Select and Signature budget tiers show how the total changes as donor compensation goes up. A Frozen Egg Bank cohort of six eggs ranges from $19,500 to $29,500, and you'll get a detailed estimate before you confirm a match. Your clinic bills its own IVF, embryo transfer, and medication costs separately, and our financial breakdown page lists every line item.
Arizona has no state law requiring insurance plans to cover infertility treatment or IVF, which leaves coverage for donor egg IVF up to your employer's plan or any fertility benefit it offers. Since donor compensation and agency fees are rarely covered, ask your insurer or HR team what your plan includes, and look into IVF grants and financing if it does not.
In the Donor Nexus Fresh Matching Program you set your own compensation with guidance from our team, there is no cap, and all of it goes directly to you. Frozen Egg Bank compensation is standardized and increases with each donation. Travel, lodging, and a companion's costs are covered separately, and payment is released within five to seven days of retrieval. Current figures are listed on our Become an Egg Donor page.
Women ages 19 to 30 who have a BMI of 24.9 or under and don't smoke can apply, and we consider healthy applicants in their early 30s case by case. Every donor completes medical, genetic, and psychological screening before she is matched or begins a banking cycle, and your screening labs and ultrasounds happen at a provider near you.
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Donor backgrounds available to Arizona families
Our database lets Arizona families narrow their search by a donor's background, and you can read more about the donors in each of the groups below on their own pages.
Asian, Black, Blonde, Caucasian, Hispanic, Indian, Irish, Italian, Jewish, Middle Eastern
Egg donation across the U.S. and worldwide
Donor Nexus coordinates egg donation cycles throughout California, including Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Across the United States, we work with families and donors in New York City and Brooklyn, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Boston, Chicago, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Atlanta and Georgia, North Carolina, Miami and Florida, Texas, Colorado, Arizona, Las Vegas and Nevada, Utah, Seattle, and Oregon. As an international egg donation agency, we also work with intended parents and egg donors in Australia, Canada, and worldwide.
