Comparison · 17 material differences
Financial Executives International vs NVCA
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Verified September 2026
Professional association
Verified September 2026 Financial Executives International
Senior corporate finance executives - CFOs, chief accounting officers, controllers, treasurers, tax executives and audit committee members
Professional association
NVCA
Firms that invest venture-stage risk equity capital in the United States, plus the service providers who work with them
What the records say
- Role or title: Financial Executives International: Qualifying title: CFO, chief accounting officer, controller, treasurer, VP of finance, tax, risk management or planning and analysis, a director in those functions, or audit committee member; NVCA: No published role or title.
- Minimum company revenue: Financial Executives International: Company must have at least $10 million in annual revenues (or meet an alternative size test); NVCA: No published minimum company revenue.
- Minimum employees: Financial Executives International: No published minimum employees; NVCA: At least one full-time employee (or full-time equivalent) dedicated to private equity investing.
- Minimum net worth: Financial Executives International: Alternative company test: $2 million in net worth; NVCA: No published minimum net worth.
- Annual dues: Financial Executives International: $399–499 a year; NVCA: $500–35,000 a year.
Side by side
| Financial Executives International | NVCA | |
|---|---|---|
| Profile | ||
| Type | Professional association | Professional association |
| Founded | 1931 (Founded as the Controllers Institute of America in 1931; renamed Financial Executives Institute in 1962 and Financial Executives International in 2000.) | 1973 (Founding year of 1973 is reported by secondary reference sources; NVCA's own site does not state it on the pages checked) |
| Headquarters | Morristown, United States | Washington, United States |
| Geographic footprint | United States: 56 local chapters listed on FEI's own chapter index, from Hawaii to Long Island | United States, with offices in Washington DC and San Francisco |
| Members | 10,000as of September 2026 | Could not be independently verified: NVCA publishes a full member directory but no headline count; secondary sources cite figures between 400 and 460 member firms without a clear date |
| Chapters | 56 | Not publicly disclosed: NVCA has no chapter structure; it operates from two offices |
| Primary audience | Senior corporate finance executives - CFOs, chief accounting officers, controllers, treasurers, tax executives and audit committee members | Firms that invest venture-stage risk equity capital in the United States, plus the service providers who work with them |
| Typical member | Members hold policy-making finance roles at companies across every major industry, from Fortune 500 businesses to mid-sized enterprises. Eligibility requires both a qualifying title and a company that clears a size test. | Member organizations are venture partnerships, corporate venture groups, family offices, funds of funds and university or accelerator programmes that invest risk equity capital in the US. Membership is held by the firm rather than the individual. |
| Qualification | ||
| Role or title | Qualifying title: CFO, chief accounting officer, controller, treasurer, VP of finance, tax, risk management or planning and analysis, a director in those functions, or audit committee memberFEI describes membership as "exclusive to senior-level financial executives".verified September 2026 · source ↗ | No published role or title |
| Minimum company revenue | Company must have at least $10 million in annual revenues (or meet an alternative size test)Alternative tests are $2 million in net worth or $6 million in capital (combined net worth and long-term debt).verified September 2026 · source ↗ | No published minimum company revenue |
| Minimum employees | No published minimum employees | At least one full-time employee (or full-time equivalent) dedicated to private equity investingverified September 2026 · source ↗ |
| Minimum net worth | Alternative company test: $2 million in net worthThis is a company balance-sheet test, not a personal net-worth test.verified September 2026 · source ↗ | No published minimum net worth |
| Geographic restriction | United States; members within 75 miles of a chapter must join that chapterverified September 2026 · source ↗ | Must be investing or planning to invest risk equity capital in the United StatesOpen to non-US firms that invest into the USverified September 2026 · source ↗ |
| Invitation required | No | No |
| Sponsor required | No | No |
| Application process | Candidates complete an online membership application on the FEI site, which checks the qualifying title and company size test and presents chapter options and rates. Chapter membership is required for those within 75 miles of a chapter. No sponsor or nomination is needed. | A firm submits an application form at nvca.org/nvca-application-form/ or contacts the membership team. Eligibility is checked against the risk-capital and staffing tests, and dues are set from the firm's committed capital band. There is no published interview or sponsorship step. |
| Selectivity | No acceptance rate is published. Selectivity operates through the published title and company-size tests and the exclusion of service providers and start-ups. | Not publicly disclosed: NVCA states eligibility criteria but does not publish acceptance or rejection data |
| Cost | ||
| Annual dues | $399–499 a year"FEI membership dues are $399 for first year and $499 for subsequent years for all categories of membership" per the FEI Kansas City chapter. Other FEI chapter sites quote $309 a year for national dues, so the published figure varies by page.verified September 2026 · source ↗ | $500–35,000 a yearStandard VC fund category, banded by committed capital across funds closed in the past ten years: $500 at $5M; $1,000 for $5M–$9.9M; $2,000–$6,000 for $10M–$99.9M (plus $500 per additional $10M); $10,000–$17,500 for $100M–$499.9M (plus $2,500 per additional $100M); $22,500–$32,500 for $500M–$999.9M; $35,000 and above for $1B+ (plus $5,000 per additional $500M)verified September 2026 · source ↗ |
| Initiation fee | Not publicly disclosed; no joining fee separate from first-year dues is published.verified September 2026 | Not publicly disclosedverified September 2026 |
| Local chapter dues | $75–468 a yearChapter dues are additional and vary by location: FEI Boston publishes $75 a year, FEI Northeast Ohio waives local dues in the first year, and FEI Sacramento lists $468 a year for executive, academic, in-transition and government/military categories, $399 for entrepreneur and $349 for retired. The Sacramento figures may be all-in rather than chapter-only.verified September 2026 · source ↗ | Dues are firm-level and set from committed capital in funds closed over the previous ten years. |
| Membership term | Annual | Annual |
| Structure | ||
| Meeting frequency | Local chapter meetings through the year plus national conferences, webinars and CPE-bearing courses | National events through the year, including the Strategic Operations and Policy Summit and the Leadership Awards Dinner; advisory committees meet separately |
| Peer forums | No standing facilitated peer forum. FEI operates chapters, technical committees and special-interest programming rather than closed advisory groups | No peer-forum structure; members organise through advisory committees and policy working groups |
| Confidentiality | No published forum confidentiality rule; FEI is a professional association with open programming and a member code of conduct | Could not be independently verified: no published confidentiality policy was found |
| Time commitment | Not documented | Not documented |
| Organized as | Chapter-based, Event-focused | Event-focused, Virtual |
| Confidential peer forums | Partial | No |
| Local chapters | Yes | No |
| Virtual membership | Partial | No |
| Online community | Partial | Partial |
| Member directory | Yes | Yes |
| Events | Yes | Yes |
| Programming | ||
| Educational programming | Yes | Partial |
| Leadership development | Yes | Partial |
| Retreats | No | No |
| Travel | No | No |
| Family programming | No | No |
| Spouse and partner programming | No | No |
| Next-generation programming | No | No |
| Investment discussions | No | Partial |
| Investment opportunities | No | No |
| Philanthropic component | Partial | No |
| Networking emphasis | High | Medium |
| Social emphasis | Low | Low |
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