99.1%
More than 99% of Promise parents bring home a baby, and our families live in 70 countries worldwide.
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Your Dream, Our Promise
Promise is known for a 99.5% success rate and combined 30+ years of experience helping families welcome a child
Results You Can Trust
4,000+
More than 4,000 surrogates for selection—and growing!
50%
Over 50% of our carriers are returning carriers or referrals.
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Close to 400 clinic partners worldwide, including decade-long relationships with top 10 fertility clinics.
Many of us have walked this path ourselves.
76% of our team are parents who built their families through IVF, surrogacy, or egg donation.
About Surrogacy
Surrogacy is an assisted-reproduction path in which intended parents partner with a gestational surrogate who carries and cares for their baby(ies) until birth. Families turn to surrogacy when they need this support to begin or expand their family.
In simple terms, surrogacy is an arrangement in which someone gives birth for someone else. Gestational surrogacy helps people who cannot carry a pregnancy become parents.
Surrogacy is a process that calls for medical and legal expertise, plus steady support from start to finish. People who pursue surrogacy to have a child are often called Intended Parents (IPs).
Surrogacy Process
With IVF, embryos are created in a lab at a fertility clinic. Intended parents may use their own genetic material, or an egg donor may be part of the plan. An embryo is then transferred to a gestational carrier, who carries the baby(ies) to term.
Intended Parents
Surrogacy opens a path for couples and individuals of many backgrounds, ages, and sexual orientations to grow their families.
Intended parents who choose surrogacy often include:
- Heterosexual couples facing infertility challenges
- Gay and Trans parents and other members of the LGBTQIA+ community
- Intended mothers who cannot safely carry a pregnancy
- Intended parents with a genetic condition or health concern they do not wish to pass on to a child
Every surrogacy journey is one of a kind, and we are proud to have helped so many remarkable families grow in the United States and around the world.
Promise brings the personal touch of a small agency together with the resources of a large one.
Our team members are experienced surrogates and can skillfully guide others through every step
Outstanding surrogates and service.
Intended parents choose Promise Surrogacy for access to a full-service program with carefully screened surrogates, dedicated interdisciplinary experts, and a long record of success.
The most complete surrogate benefits and support.
Surrogates choose Promise Surrogacy because our program is built around their needs: competitive pay, reliable security and exceptional support. Our team members are experienced surrogates who can expertly guide others through the process.
Why Choose Promise?
Promise Surrogacy has been guiding intended parents and surrogates through successful journeys for a combined 30+ years. Our highly experienced support team is emotionally invested in every journey we take on.
Small-agency care with large-agency resources and expertise
We support you and your surrogate from beginning to end. Mental health professionals are assigned to every case, and we offer support groups tailored to all kinds of families. And 24% of our team are licensed professionals.
Rigorous, best-in-class surrogate screening
More than 3,000 moms have been surrogates with us, and we’re proud that 94% of our surrogates pass their first medical screening.
Integrity and security shape every shared journey
We confirm alignment on termination decisions with your surrogate before matching. And Promise’s contracts and pricing stay transparent—so there are no surprises later.
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More than 4,000 surrogates to choose from, backed by combined 30+ years helping families grow
After building his own family through surrogacy, Marcus Ellison founded Promise Surrogacy in October 1995 to help others who could not grow their families on their own. With combined 30+ years experience, we offer more than 4,000 surrogates to choose from and partnerships with nearly 400 clinics.
Marcus Ellison, Founder of Promise
What Does a Surrogacy Journey Cost?
Surrogacy costs depend on several factors and usually include agency and legal fees, screening, your surrogate’s expenses, and insurance.,Promise created the Journey Protection™ Program, with a fixed price of $188,500, so intended parents can focus on building their families without financial stress or uncertainty. This all-inclusive program is designed for a predictable, secure surrogacy journey.
For more details on our program cost, click here.
What Sets Us Apart
Our people and our programs are what make the difference.
We know—often firsthand—that welcoming a baby through surrogacy is both deeply meaningful and complex. That is why our team includes mental health professionals and lawyers, intake associates and accountants, program managers and coordinators, all working across specialized teams so parents and surrogates can navigate every part of the journey together.
Beyond that, as a leading agency of parents, former surrogates, and egg donors, our lived experience helps us design programs that fit many kinds of families—with unlimited matching, deep experience across diverse communities, and long-term support plans.
How We Match Surrogates and Parents
Our experienced team carefully pairs intended parents and surrogates we believe will meaningfully shape one another’s lives. These thoughtful matches are guided by our proprietary MatchMade™ approach to foster a healthy, genuine relationship with your surrogate.
Our matching specialists have successfully matched over 3,600 sets of parents. We recommend the right match by weighing the criteria below:
- Personality
- Preferences for communication, number of embryos to transfer, and views on termination
- Legal considerations and location
Once a match is mutually agreed upon by all parties, Promise encourages intended parents and surrogates to share openly with one another, strengthening their bond through the journey—and beyond.
