Egg donation/Fertility Institute of San Diego Egg Donor Program
Verified September 30, 2026
Fertility Institute of San Diego Egg Donor Program Egg Donor Pay & Requirements
Clinic
Pay
$8,000
first cycle
Where
La Jolla, CA
1 clinic location · Travel covered
Time
intake about 2 weeks; matching 1 week–6 months; full cycle about 3 months; stimulation 10–14 days
Monitoring and downtime
Age
Conflict: clinic donor page 20–30; official donor site typically 21–32
healthy BMI; numeric threshold not published
At a glance
Where and travel
- Clinic: La Jolla, CA
- >50-mile travel reimbursement; non-California flight, hotel, and daily food allowances covered; dollar amounts not published
- In-house clinic
Pay
- First cycle $8,000 per cycle
- Up to 6 cycles
Requirements
- Conflict: clinic donor page 20–30; official donor site typically 21–32
- healthy BMI; numeric threshold not published
- Education: not strict; some college preferred by many intended parents
- non-smoker / healthy lifestyle
- Genetic screening
- Psychological screening
- Good physical and mental health
- Medical/psychological screening
- Ultrasound, AMH, infectious disease, genetic carrier screening
- Up to 6 lifetime cycles
Time
- Intake about 2 weeks; matching 1 week–6 months; full cycle about 3 months; stimulation 10–14 days
Pay
- First cycle
- $8,000
Donor-page amounts, verified September 30, 2026.
Outside the stipend
- Travel reimbursement
- >50-mile travel reimbursement; non-California flight, hotel, and daily food allowances covered; dollar amounts not published
- Expenses covered
- >50-mile travel reimbursement; non-California flight, hotel, and daily food allowances covered; dollar amounts not published; cycle fees/screening paid by intended parents; named donor insurance policy not published; legal fees paid by intended parents; attorney at cycle screening
Where and when
Where
- Headquarters
- La Jolla, CA
- Clinic locations
- La Jolla, CA
- Travel reimbursement
- >50-mile travel reimbursement; non-California flight, hotel, and daily food allowances covered; dollar amounts not published
- Travel covered
- Yes
Time
- Monitoring and downtime
- intake about 2 weeks; matching 1 week–6 months; full cycle about 3 months; stimulation 10–14 days
Do you qualify
Requirements
- Age
- Conflict: clinic donor page 20–30; official donor site typically 21–32
- BMI
- healthy BMI; numeric threshold not published
- Also required
- Education: not strict; some college preferred by many intended parents
- non-smoker / healthy lifestyle
- good physical and mental health
- medical/psychological screening
- ultrasound, AMH, infectious disease, genetic carrier screening
- up to 6 lifetime cycles
Screening
- Psychological screening
- Yes
- Genetic screening
- Yes
- Screening steps
- intake and post-match clinic screening; ultrasound, bloodwork, physical, psych, genetic counselor
How it works
Steps
- Matching
- Database matching; selection may take 1 week to months
- Application
- Two online applications → intake call → intake medical screen at La Jolla/remote → database → match → cycle screening/legal → 10–14-day stimulation → on-site retrieval → follow-up
- Donor coordinator
- donor coordinator / egg donor program specialists
Covered and limits
- Medications
- Yes
- Insurance
- Yes
- Legal counsel
- Yes
- Identity
- In-house cycles default non-identified; open cycle only if specifically discussed
- Cycle limit
- 6
- Fresh cycles
- Yes
- Also offers surrogacy
- Yes
- Also offers sperm donation
- Yes
Apply and contact
- Website
- Agency site
- Phone
- (858) 477-3310
- info@fertilityinstitutesd.com
- Program type
- Clinic
Sources
- primary clinic donor page: pay, age, process, anonymity, EDC-only apply · 2026-09-30
- primary clinic contact / HQ · 2026-09-30
- primary clinic homepage / official donor site link · 2026-09-30
- official donor-site compensation and travel · 2026-09-30
- official donor-site eligibility / age conflict · 2026-09-30
- official donor-site become / La Jolla intake · 2026-09-30
- official donor-site process / on-site retrieval · 2026-09-30
- official donor-site contact / address and service-area list · 2026-09-30
- EDC secondary pointer · 2026-09-30
Last verified September 30, 2026.
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