Who runs this
About DonorIndex
DonorIndex is an independent reference for what US sperm banks and egg donor programs actually pay — built because that information is scattered, inconsistent, and often inflated across program marketing and third-party directories. Every figure here traces to a primary source and is dated.
Built and edited by David P. — who builds comparison sites to shed light on opaque, confusing industries for the consumers trying to navigate them.
Why it exists
Someone deciding whether to donate sperm or eggs has to compare pay across programs that each describe it differently — a per-donation rate, an “up to” monthly ceiling, a first-cycle band, an annual total — with part of the money often deferred. We put those on one honest ruler: what a program publishes, what we derive and label, and what it simply doesn't disclose.
Independent, and how we're funded
DonorIndex isn't owned by a sperm bank, egg clinic, agency, or trade body, and no program pays for placement, ranking, or a better number. We run no affiliate links and earn no referral fees — the outbound links go straight to each program's own application. If that ever changes, we'll label it clearly, and it will never change a figure, a label, or a sort order. If honesty and a payout ever conflicted, the data wins; that's the whole reason the site is worth anything.
How the data is gathered
Compensation, requirements, and locations come from each program's own donor pages — sperm banks and egg clinics, banks, and agencies — not aggregators or secondhand estimates. Where a program doesn't publish something, we mark it Hidden or Not published rather than guess, and where we calculate a monthly figure we label it derived. The full process — sourcing, “up to” vs. derived, and how we date every profile — is on the methodology page.
Found an error? Tell us
Accuracy is the entire product, so a correction is the single most useful thing you can send. If a program has changed its pay, or a number here doesn't match its own page, send it below — a link to that page is what lets us verify and log the fix fast. Prefer email? Write corrections@donorindex.org.