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Filtering Options In Our Egg Donor Database
Navigating the vast array of choices in an egg donor database can be exciting and a little overwhelming. As you search for the woman who will contribute the other half of your baby’s biology, you may want to consider filtering candidates based on the factors that are most important to you.
Below, we explore the high-level decisions involved in choosing an egg donor as well as the more granular attributes you can use to narrow your search.
Understanding Donation Types
Everie believes that every donor-conceived individuals should have the opportunity to know where they come from and to take pride in their origin story.
That’s why we encourage disclosed egg donation: egg donation in which the donor is willing to share some aspects of her identity with the recipient parent(s) and children conceived from her eggs.
Disclosed donation at Everie takes three forms:
A Known egg donor has the greatest willingness to share her identity and contact information. During our Mutual Match process™, these donors are open to having a video call to meet prospective recipient parents and nurture an ongoing relationship with the family they are helping to grow.
Known Donation
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A semi-known egg donor may be comfortable sharing her first name only and may choose not to disclose any contact details. While she is also willing to have a video call before matching with a recipient, she is likely not looking to extend a relationship beyond that.
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An ID release donor chooses to keep her identifying information and contact details private. The recipient parents will still be able to learn about her from her profile but will not have a video call prior to the match. However, this type of egg donor is willing to have her identity released if any children conceived from her eggs come of age and request to learn more about her.
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Although we encourage disclosed egg donation, we respect every donor’s right to define their comfort levels around sharing their identities. For donors who wish to maximize their privacy, the most confidential donation option we offer is:
De-Identified Donation
A De-identified egg donor chooses to suppress her identity and contact information from both the recipient parents and their donor-conceived children. At the time of matching, she has no specified conditions (such as the child coming of age) to release her identity. It’s important for us to note that there really is no longer the option of “anonymous” donations with today’s genetic technologies.
Everie’s forward-thinking approach considers how questions of identity can affect a donor-conceived child’s sense of self as they age. We help recipient parents navigate these sensitive conversations and give our donors the flexibility to become more known if they wish.
Fresh vs Frozen
In addition to choosing the type of egg donation(s) you are open to considering, you will need to decide on the egg donation cycle that best suits your needs. Everie uniquely offers recipient parents both fresh and frozen egg donation options.
The main considerations in this decision include:
Cost. Fresh egg donations are more expensive and include the egg donor’s travel and medical expenses for her egg retrieval procedure.
Quantity. Fresh egg recipient parents get all the eggs collected during egg retrieval, while frozen eggs are available in batches of 6.
Flexibility. Frozen eggs are available immediately for thawing and embryo development, while fresh egg donation cycles must be coordinated with the egg donor and fertility clinic.
Other Filters and Searchable Criteria
Once you know your preferences for egg donation and cycle type, you can start filtering through our database to find the donors who resonate with you. We provide guidance on how to define your egg donor selection criteria, but as you go through our database, you’ll be able to apply filters and search by:
Donor ID
Favorites
Type of Egg Donation
Fresh or Frozen
Availability
Prior Egg Donor
Marital Status
Ethnicity
Race
Eye Color
Hair Color
Hair Type
Age
Height
Get Started With Everie
Everie’s database filtering and search criteria help recipient parents thoughtfully consider prospective donors based on the characteristics that are most important to them. Once you’ve found your favorite candidate(s), you can begin the mutual match process.
Everie advises and supports you as you grow your family through egg donation. Your dedicated Everie consultant is available to answer your questions, direct you to resources, and facilitate as smooth and fulfilling an experience as possible.
Once you create an account with our donor database you can begin reviewing profiles and searching for our donor match. By using the filters provided, you can begin to narrow your search for your right donor match.
The Database Browsing Experience
Creating a Database Account
View Summary Cards
Filter your results based on select criteria
Click to view Donor details
Favorite specific donors that speak to you
Make notes on specific donors
Ask questions of your Everie team
Having registered for the donor database, you have the opportunity to:
Download a PDF of each specific donor's profile
Once you create a database account, you will be granted permission to browse all of our active bright, young egg donors. You will have the opportunity to filter results to help narrow down the number of donors you review. You can change the filters as many times as you’d like.
Reserving a Donor
Recipient parents are not able to reserve a frozen donor’s eggs until they have completed all of their Everie paperwork tasks. Similarly, recipient parents are not able to reserve a fresh donor until all Everie paperwork tasks are complete.
Once you have registered for the donor database and completed all of your required task paperwork, you will have the ability to reserve an egg donor. If the donor you select is available, you can immediately “reserve” that donor.
If a donor is in Cycle (Matched) or Under Review (Matching), and her card says "Queue Available 3 of 3", recipient parents will become first in queue.
If a donor is In Cycle (Matched) or Under Review (Matching), and her card says "Queue Available 2 of 3", recipient parents will become second in queue.
If a donor is In Cycle (Matched) or Under Review (Matching), and her card says "Queue Available 1 of 3", recipient parents will become third in queue.
If a donor is In Cycle (Matched) or Under Review (Matching), and her card says "Queue Available 0 of 3", recipient parents will not be able to enter the donor's queue.
If the donor has a status of anything other than Available, here’s what that means:
Once you reserve a donor (and are interested in a fresh donor cycle), you will be prompted to complete a fourth task set which includes one task: “The Recipient Parent Form” (fresh journeys only).
For any egg donors that have a queue, they will be made aware that there are recipient parents waiting to match. If you are waiting in a donor’s queue, Everie will alert you each time you move up one spot within the queue. Once your egg donor is available, you can begin the matching process.
Traditionally, egg donors are excluded from the matching process and often don’t know who – or even how sets of parents – uses their eggs. With Everie, our donors play an active role in the decision-making process.
At the heart of our approach is the Mutual Match™.
They get to say “yes” to the recipient parents who are interested in them and “yes” to whose families they will help grow.
Here’s how the process works:
Personal Values
Common Interests
Educational Background
Physical Attributes
Genetic Carrier Status
Identity Disclosure Status (how comfortable the egg donor is with sharing her identity and contact information)
Egg Donation Cycle Type (fresh or frozen)
Recipient parents begin by browsing our egg donor database to find the women who resonate the most. While the selection criteria may vary between individuals, they usually include a combination of the following:
Previous Egg Donation History
Egg Donor Selection
Expressing Interest
Once you’ve identified the egg donor(s) you could see contributing to your growing family, we facilitate a connection by sharing your parent profile with your potential donor matches.
This profile lets the donors learn more about you, your family, and why you are looking for an egg donor. The donors can then choose whether to proceed with the match request.
Video Call
For donors interested in getting to know you better and who are willing to be identified, we can arrange a video call so both of you can assess the level of connection you share and, ideally, foster a meaningful relationship.
This call is a great way to get to know one another better and align your expectations. If you both choose to move forward, what relationship would you like to have with each other? What about your future kids? Getting clarity early on can help you both find the right match for each other.
In the case of donors who wish to keep their identities confidential, a Mutual Match™ can be established based on the parent profile alone.
Although we encourage disclosed donation, we support every donor and recipient parent’s right to privacy. We will guide them in making sensitive identity disclosure decisions with confidence and authenticity.
Mutual Match™
If you and your donor candidate both agree on each other, it’s a match! You two can now move on to the next step in the egg donation process. For fresh egg donation cycles, this will be the egg retrieval process; for frozen egg donations, you can go straight to thawing eggs and embryo development as the eggs have already been retrieved and preserved.
You can find out more about the steps involved by reading our How Matching Works page.
The Benefits of a Mutual Match™
Everie’s Mutual Match™ embodies the beauty of the egg donation process: a compassionate egg donor helping parents grow their family in an informed, inclusive way. In a time when egg donation tends to feel transactional and impersonal, we believe the human connection is what makes the process truly special.
For recipient parents, choosing the egg donor who represents the best of what you want for your family—and being chosen by them in return—is an incredibly powerful and rewarding moment.
For egg donors, our Mutual Match™ system means reclaiming their right to be included in the assisted reproduction conversation. It allows them to make a life-changing impact while still having control over their level of identity disclosure and any future contact with the families they help grow.
Finally, the Mutual Match™ benefits the children conceived through this process. With deep compassion and a long-term approach to egg donation, we seek to help the next generation grow up with a strong sense of identity and a proud understanding of their origins.
Get Started With Everie
Growing a family through egg donation is a profoundly fulfilling experience and one that Everie guides and supports you through at every step. We welcome you to experience the power of genuine connections and meaningful, informed choices for yourself.
The Exchange is an egg donor matching platform designed to create genuine connections and careful consideration of every life touched by this beautiful process — including donors, parents, and donor-conceived children — both now and far into the future.
Mutual Match™
As leaders in fertility for over 25 years, our team created Everie to show the world what egg donation should be:
a space for genuine connections and careful consideration of every life touched by this beautiful process—including donors, parents, and donor-conceived children—both now and far into the future.
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