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CORE: membership requirements

Every criterion CORE: publishes, with its source, the date it was verified and how confident we are in it — plus superseded figures, so you can see how the tests have moved.

Read a requirement as the organization's published floor, not as a promise. A revenue test may have alternative versions for different business types, chapters can set stricter local tests, and invitation-only bodies publish criteria that describe members rather than admit them.

Current published criteria

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Criterion	Published requirement	Note	Provenance
Other criterion	No published qualifying test; the club says it curates members who are "energized by cultural exploration, committed to community engagement, inspired by original perspectives, drawn to support philanthropic causes"	Founder Jennie Enterprise has described her criterion in the press as "if somebody has an interesting story to tell, they'd be a great member".	Verified September 2026High confidenceSource ↗

Not publicly disclosed beyond the club's own description of the community it curates.

How admission works

Application process

The club's membership page invites prospective members to submit an enquiry rather than to apply directly, and states only that CORE: curates its community. There is no published sponsorship, committee or interview stage, and no application form is exposed publicly.

Invitation required

— not documented by the organization or a source we could verify

Sponsor required

— not documented by the organization or a source we could verify

Selectivity

Not publicly disclosed. The club has never published acceptance figures or waitlist information.

Membership term

Could not be independently verified

Primary audience

The club describes "a global community of relentlessly curious individuals" whose members "shape the worlds of art and architecture, sports and entertainment, technology and science, fashion and design and beauty, investment and finance, culinary and hospitality, industry and biotech"

Typical member

Members are drawn from the wealthier end of New York business, finance and cultural life. Founder members named in press coverage included J. Christopher Burch, Millard Drexler, Ari Emanuel, Aby Rosen, Steven Roth, Stephen Schwarzman and Terry Semel; the club has said it maintains an equal number of female and male members.

Reported threshold changes

2005Jennie Enterprise opens the CORE: Club at 66 East 55th Street, Manhattan, after Aby Rosen offers seed money and space; a further US$10 million is raised from members ↗

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Last verified: 6 September 2026 Report an error on this page

Sources

CORE: | Private Members Club | New York, Milano, The CORE: Club. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 1
Locations - CORE:, The CORE: Club. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 1
Membership - CORE:, The CORE: Club. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 2
Mr. Mover, Meet Ms. Shaker, The New York Times, August 2005. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 6
The Bucks Stop Here, The New York Times, June 2011. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 6
Is New York's Romance With Social Clubs Merely a Pandemic Love Affair?, Bloomberg News, January 2022. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 6
CORE Club, Wikipedia. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 8
You Can Get In Anthony Scaramucci's Exclusive Social Club - If You Have $67,000 and "a Story to Tell", Elle, June 2018. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 8

Source tiers follow the published hierarchy: 1 official site · 2 official membership materials · 3 application documents · 4 annual reports · 5 government filings · 6 reliable business publications · 7 credible interviews · 8 other reputable secondary sources. Sources and data policy.