Elevate Egg Donors and Surrogates — An Honest Editorial Review
Elevate Egg Donors and Surrogates — operating publicly as Elevate Baby — is a Beverly Hills-based third-party reproduction agency specializing in egg donor matching, sperm donor coordination, and gestational surrogacy. Intended parents (IPs) comparing surrogacy options against fertility clinics in California will encounter Elevate as one of the larger, more visible Los Angeles-area agencies. A point worth stating plainly up front: Elevate is a matching and coordination agency, not a fertility clinic. It does not perform egg retrievals, embryology, or embryo transfers; those medical services are performed at a separately contracted reproductive endocrinology (REI) clinic.
About the Agency
Elevate Baby was founded by IPs Taylor Frey and Kyle Dean Massey, who launched the agency after their own journey through assisted reproduction. Per the company's public materials, Tara serves as CEO and oversees day-to-day operations across departments. The agency has grown from a boutique shop to a full-service reproductive concierge that publicly reports handling over 250 assisted reproductive journeys per year. Elevate operates out of 9461 Charleville Boulevard in Beverly Hills.
There is no medical director listed, no embryology lab on premises, and no organizational NPI visible in the NPPES registry — all consistent with agency (non-clinical) scope. Confirm current membership in the Society for Ethics in Egg Donation and Surrogacy (SEEDS) and any affiliations with ASRM directly with the agency.
Services Offered
Elevate's advertised scope covers the non-medical scaffolding of a donor or gestational-carrier (GC) cycle:
- Egg donor recruitment, screening, and matching (the agency publicly cites a ~3% donor acceptance rate)
- Gestational surrogate recruitment, screening, and matching
- Sperm donor coordination
- Psychological evaluation coordination via independent licensed mental-health professionals
- Legal coordination with independent California reproductive-law counsel for IPs and donors/GCs
- Escrow management for donor and GC compensation
- Concierge case management from intake through delivery
- International intended-parent support
Medical steps — ovarian stimulation, egg retrieval, ICSI/fertilization, embryology, embryo transfer, and prenatal care — are performed at an REI clinic and OB practice that IPs select and contract with directly.
What This Agency Is — and Isn't
This distinction matters because agency marketing can blur it, and because Elevate's registered business name ("Egg Donors and Surrogates") sometimes gets indexed alongside fertility clinics.
- Elevate does: recruit, vet, and match donors and GCs; coordinate legal, psychological, and medical screening logistics; run escrow; manage the case from first call through post-delivery.
- Elevate does not: perform egg retrievals, create embryos, run an andrology or embryology lab, do embryo transfers, prescribe fertility medications, or provide prenatal care.
The medical success rate of any cycle coordinated by Elevate is a function of the REI clinic's laboratory and protocols, not the agency. Read how to read IVF success rates before selecting the clinical partner, and cross-check the clinic's most recent SART report.
Who This Serves
Agency-assisted third-party reproduction is most commonly pursued by IPs who cannot carry a pregnancy with their own gametes. Typical scenarios:
- Same-sex male couples and single fathers pursuing LGBTQ+ family building
- Patients with uterine-factor infertility (absent uterus, severe Asherman's, prior hysterectomy)
- Medical contraindications to pregnancy (certain cardiac, oncologic, or autoimmune conditions)
- Patients needing donor eggs after diminished ovarian reserve or repeated poor response on IVF
- International IPs routing to California specifically for its legal framework
California Legal Framework
California is widely regarded as the most donor- and surrogacy-favorable US jurisdiction. Under California Family Code §§ 7960–7962, compensated gestational-surrogacy agreements are expressly enforceable when properly executed before embryo transfer, and pre-birth parentage orders are routinely issued to all IP configurations — married couples, unmarried couples, same-sex couples, and single parents — regardless of genetic connection. There are no statutory caps on donor or GC compensation, and the state imposes no residency requirement on IPs. This statutory clarity is the practical reason a disproportionate share of domestic and international surrogacy journeys route through California. IPs and GCs must be represented by separate independent counsel; Elevate coordinates the legal workflow but does not itself practice law.
For egg donation specifically, ASRM practice guidelines (and SEEDS ethical standards) set expectations on donor screening, informed consent, lifetime cycle caps, and compensation transparency. Ask Elevate directly which guidelines it formally follows.
Patient Experience
At publication, Fertlo's aggregated rating for Elevate Egg Donors and Surrogates is 4.8 / 5 across 189 reviews, a volume and score that are at the higher end for Los Angeles-area agencies. Reviews generally describe attentive concierge handling, responsive case managers, and strong donor-match quality. Review aggregates do not substitute for reference calls with two or three prior IPs and, separately, one or two prior donors or GCs. Ask Elevate to connect you with recent journey participants before signing.
Costs and Timeline
California has a partial infertility-diagnosis insurance mandate, but surrogacy and donor-egg expenses remain largely out-of-pocket (see IVF cost by state and fertility insurance mandates by state). Elevate does not publish a fee schedule. Industry ranges as benchmarks:
- Donor-egg cycle (agency fee + donor compensation + clinic IVF cycle): commonly $40,000–$65,000+ in California
- Gestational-surrogacy journey (agency fees + GC base compensation + legal + escrow + insurance + medical/IVF): commonly $180,000–$275,000+ in California, with first-time GC base compensation frequently $60,000–$80,000 and experienced GCs higher
- Matching timelines: egg-donor matches can finalize within weeks once a donor is selected; GC matches typically run 3–12+ months depending on IP medical/insurance requirements
Confirm every line item, cap, refund policy, and re-match provision in writing before signing an agency agreement.
Location and Contact
- Address: 9461 Charleville Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90212
- Phone: (323) 933-8918
- Website: elevatebaby.com
FAQ
Is Elevate Egg Donors and Surrogates a fertility clinic? No. Elevate is a third-party reproduction agency. It recruits, screens, and matches egg donors and gestational carriers and coordinates legal, psychological, and financial logistics. The IVF cycle itself — stimulation, retrieval, embryology, and transfer — happens at a separately chosen REI clinic. Most IPs working with Elevate will also contract with a Los Angeles-area clinic from the fertility clinics in California directory.
What does an agency do that an REI clinic doesn't? An agency handles the non-medical scaffolding: finding and vetting a donor or GC, coordinating psych and legal screening, running escrow, and managing communication across the IPs, donor/GC, clinic, and attorneys. An REI clinic handles the medical work: stimulation protocols, egg retrieval, andrology, embryology, embryo transfer, and early pregnancy monitoring before hand-off to OB care.
Who are the founders? Elevate Baby was founded by Taylor Frey and Kyle Dean Massey, who pursued assisted reproduction themselves before building the agency. Tara serves as CEO.
How donor-friendly is California, legally? Very. Compensated gestational-surrogacy agreements are expressly enforceable under state law when properly executed, pre-birth parentage orders are routinely granted to all IP configurations, and there are no compensation caps or IP residency requirements. This is why a substantial share of US and international surrogacy journeys are structured in California.
What is the typical journey timeline? Egg-donor matches often close within weeks of donor selection, with a full donor-egg cycle running roughly 3–6 months from match to transfer. Full gestational-surrogacy journeys typically run 15–24 months from signed agency agreement to delivery.
Editorial note: Independently written by the Fertlo editorial team; not sponsored. See our editorial policy.