Egg Donation in Seattle
Donor Nexus works with Seattle and Washington intended parents and egg donors through our Fresh Matching Program and FDA-registered Frozen Egg Bank.
Our egg donor agency and egg bank serving Seattle and Washington
Find an Egg Donor
Choose from more than 500 donor profiles. Your donor can travel to your Seattle-area clinic through our Fresh Matching Program, or frozen donor eggs can ship from our egg bank straight to your Washington clinic.
Become an Egg Donor
Donate from Seattle or anywhere in Washington 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 Seattle and Washington
Intended parents and egg donors from Seattle to Spokane have two Donor Nexus programs to choose from. In the Fresh Matching Program, a donor is matched with one family and completes her cycle at that family's IVF clinic, so for Seattle and Bellevue families the retrieval stays in Washington, and a donor matched with a family nearby can often cycle close to home. In the Frozen Egg Bank, donors complete their retrieval at our partner site in Newport Beach, California, and the frozen eggs ship directly to clinics in Seattle and throughout the United States, usually within four to six weeks. With either program, our intended parent team and our donor team stay in close contact with your clinic and with each other as the cycle moves forward.
Donor eggs for Seattle and Washington intended parents
Whether home is Seattle, Bellevue, Kirkland, Tacoma, or Spokane, Washington intended parents can use donor eggs from Donor Nexus without changing doctors. You keep your Washington 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 Washington. Each of our egg donor profiles lists where the donor lives, so you can look for a donor from the Pacific Northwest 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 Washington insurance cover donor eggs?
Washington does not have a law requiring insurers to cover IVF, and Senate Bill 5121, a 2025-26 proposal that would have added fertility coverage, did not pass after stalling in the Senate Ways and Means Committee in 2026. Whether any part of a donor egg cycle is covered depends on your employer's plan or any fertility benefit it offers, and 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.
How the Fresh Matching Program works in Seattle and across Washington
In a fresh cycle you are matched one to one with a donor. She travels to your Washington 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 Seattle
Frozen donor eggs are available in cohorts of six and ship from our Southern California egg bank directly to your Washington 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.
What are Open ID, identified, and non-identified donations?
Non-identified donors share detailed profiles without identifying information, Open ID donors agree to be contactable by the child once they turn 18, and identified donations let you and your donor know each other from the start. Fresh matches offer all three, and our Frozen Egg Bank offers non-identified and Open ID.
Fresh vs. frozen donor eggs for Washington 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 Washington clinic | Cohort of six frozen eggs, four to six weeks to your Washington 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 |
Seattle-area fertility clinics we have worked with
We have coordinated fresh donor cycles or shipped frozen donor eggs to the Washington 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.
Seattle Reproductive Medicine (SRM), Seattle
Overlake Reproductive Health, Bellevue
POMA Fertility, Kirkland
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 Seattle and Washington
Women between 19 and 30 who don't smoke and have a BMI of 24.9 or under, whether in Seattle, Bellevue, Redmond, Tacoma, or Spokane, can apply online, and our guide explains how to become an egg donor with Donor Nexus if you would like to read up before you start. Our egg donor requirements page explains each qualification and why it matters, including our case-by-case review of healthy applicants in their early 30s. Your screening labs and ultrasounds happen at a provider near you in Washington, 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 Washington 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 Washington 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 Washington, and Donor Nexus arranges the referral so that most of your time donating eggs is spent close to home.
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 Washington, your appointments and retrieval can often stay within driving distance of home. Your case manager plans banking-cycle travel around your schedule.
Can I get paid to donate eggs in Washington? Washington egg donors are compensated for their time and the medical process, and in our Fresh Matching Program you set that amount yourself with guidance from our team.
Can I refer a friend? Absolutely, and our refer-a-friend program pays $1,000 once a donor you refer completes a retrieval, there is no limit on referrals, and you don't need to have donated yourself.
Egg donation in Seattle and Washington: frequently asked questions
Families and prospective donors around Seattle and the rest of Washington tend to ask us about the same few topics, so we have collected the answers here. For program details and pricing, visit our donor egg programs page, or if you are thinking about donating, start with how egg donation works.
You can, and you stay with your own Washington clinic and physician throughout treatment. 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, including Washington clinics we have worked with before, such as Seattle Reproductive Medicine (SRM) and Overlake Reproductive Health.
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.
Washington does not have a law requiring insurers to cover IVF. Senate Bill 5121, a 2025-26 bill that would have added fertility coverage, did not pass after stalling in the Senate Ways and Means Committee in 2026. Coverage depends on your employer's plan or any fertility benefit it offers, and donor compensation and agency fees are rarely covered, so confirm the details with your insurer.
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 Washington families
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.
