Apawamis Club
Rye, NY · Country club · founded 1890
Steady
Initiation revenue is roughly flat.
$125k
plus $17,003 a year in dues
No flags
No financial flags in the latest public filing.
How it rates
Scored out of ten from documented facts only — court counts, ranking lists, published fee and sponsor requirements. Nothing here is an opinion poll, and a category the club has not documented is left blank rather than guessed at.
Composite 7.5 across 8 scored categories. How we score
Worth knowing
Younger than its peers
Apawamis reports an average member age of 52, against 58 at Westchester Country Club, 59 at Fenway and 64 at Cherry Valley. In a market where most clubs are trying to recruit downward, it has already done it.
What it costs, by category
Every figure carries its source and a confidence rating. Where a source gave a range rather than a number, we show the range.
| Category | Initiation | Annual dues | Minimum | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full | $125,000 | $17,003 | — | Well sourced 88/100 · 2023 | Kopplin Kuebler & Wallace ↗ |
- · The strongest record in the set. The document self-dates the fee as December 2023. 780 members, $16.4M gross, average member age 52.
The golf
Tom Bendelow (1899); Willie Davis 1899-1900; Herbert Strong bunkering 1906-1911; restored by Keith Foster 2017
What the public filings show
From this club's IRS Form 990 returns. Initiation-fee revenue is the closest public proxy there is for how many members a club admitted in a year.
| Fiscal year | Total revenue | Initiation fees | Expenses | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $19M | $4.3M | $14M | $72M |
| 2022 | $16M | $4.1M | $13M | $68M |
| 2021 | $15M | $3.9M | $11M | $64M |
Initiation-fee revenue moved +4% year over year.
Know Apawamis Club?
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Contribute what you knowSources
Everything on this page traces back to one of these.
- Assistant General Manager Profile: The Apawamis Club — MC Job Board / The Apawamis Club
- Assistant General Manager Profile: The Apawamis Club — Kopplin Kuebler & Wallace (2023)