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Family Firm Institute (FFI) membership requirements

Every criterion Family Firm Institute (FFI) publishes, with its source, the date it was verified and how confident we are in it, plus superseded figures, so you can see how the tests have moved.

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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	Membership is open by category: Professional and Family Enterprise members, Educator/Researcher, Student, or organisational membership for professional firms, educational institutions and associations	No qualifying threshold is published; category determines price rather than eligibility to be vetted.	Verified September 2026High confidenceSource ↗
Accredited-investor status	Not required for membership; FFI's Global Education Network certificates in Family Business Advising and Family Wealth Advising are optional and priced separately		Verified September 2026High confidenceSource ↗

FFI does not restrict membership by revenue, wealth, generation or title. Category selection sets the fee.

How admission works

Application process

Applicants select a membership category on FFI's membership page and pay the published rate. There is no published sponsorship, interview or committee stage. Organisational memberships are bought by the firm, institution or association and cover a stated number of named people.

Invitation required

Sponsor required

Selectivity

Not publicly disclosed: FFI describes membership categories and prices but no screening or acceptance process.

Membership term

Annual

Primary audience

Advisers, consultants, educators and researchers who serve family enterprises, plus family enterprise members themselves, who join at the same individual rate

Typical member

The core membership is professional: lawyers, accountants, wealth managers, family business consultants, psychologists and academics working with family firms and family wealth. FFI also admits family enterprise members, educators and researchers, and students, and sells organisational memberships to advisory firms, universities and associations priced by headcount.

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If not: alternatives to Family Firm Institute (FFI) (Family Business Network (FBN), Invest Europe, Campden Wealth, Loyola University Chicago Family Business Center).

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

Sources

Family Firm Institute — FFI, Family Firm Institute. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 1
About — FFI, Family Firm Institute. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 1
History — FFI, Family Firm Institute. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 1
Contact — FFI, Family Firm Institute. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 1
Conference — FFI, Family Firm Institute. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 1
Membership — FFI, Family Firm Institute. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 2
Family Firm Institute, Wikipedia. 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.