Private clubs reported $1.45 billion in initiation fees and capital contributions on fiscal 2024 Form 990s. In a constant 864-club panel, fee income grew 64.8% in five years, outpacing revenue.
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Private clubs are still booming in 2026, but the peak has passed. NGCOA data shows 58% of private clubs grew membership, while GGA Partners finds waitlists have stopped lengthening and smaller clubs are seeing softer demand. Here is what the sourced numbers say, and what they mean for membership marketing.
Crush season is a six-week window most clubs waste on a single generic wine dinner. Here’s the four-event playbook — kickoff, harvest dinner, allocation night, and a Wine Experience watch party — that Bay Harbor, Bellevue, Clearwater, Sonoma Golf Club, and City Club of Baton Rouge are already running to turn fall into their best wine-club quarter.
Kevin Durant, Rich Kleiman and Joe Gebbia open a 4,723-square-foot room on East Third Street on September 10 and call it a club. The word is doing real work — and it is aimed squarely at the discretionary social spend private clubs assume is already theirs.
October decides next year’s budget, this fall’s dues letter, and whether Q4 closes with momentum. Here’s how to run all three calendars at once, with real examples from clubs that got the budget, the letter, and the vote right.
The Laver Cup’s escalating-points scoring solves the exact problem that kills most fall tennis leagues: matches that stop mattering by week six. Here’s how to run a capped, team-format finale on Laver Cup rules — and why the waitlist you generate matters more than the event itself.
The Met’s Opening Night Gala on September 22 kicked off fall gala season nationwide — and city clubs, from the Metropolitan Opera Club to the Duquesne Club, show how to turn that momentum into a year-round membership engine. Here’s the playbook for programming, generational engagement, and social content.
The Longevity Investors Conference in Gstaad puts real capital behind the trends your members already chase at hotel spas and standalone clinics. Here’s what the money signals for your club — and which clubs are already acting on it.
As Ikon and Epic fall pricing approaches, prospects are already comparing mega-pass access against what a private ski club membership cost actually buys. From Palisades Tahoe’s new Apex Club to Windham, Hermitage, and Cimarron, this is the shoulder-season window mountain clubs should own before the pass companies frame the conversation.
Where New York’s private clubs host live music and DJ nights, what membership costs, and how non-members can get in. Every entry sourced.