Tap a camp on the map, or a row in the list below, to print its receipt. When an old rate page survives, the receipt also compares the same session around 2015 or 2019 with the price now.
Tap a row to print its receipt. Tap a column heading to sort.
| Camp | Movement | Where | Session | Days | Full cost | Per day | Price year | Change since earliest price |
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Each dot is one overnight camp, placed at its campground. Size and shade show what one day costs in a standard session, usually the camp’s longest: tuition plus the required fees and common extras the camp posts. Lines marked with a question mark are costs the camp does not post, so the true total is somewhat higher. Dashed rings are camps that post no tuition or no session length. Short taster sessions, leadership programs, and travel trips are left out.
Most camps had already posted 2027 rates by September 2026, so each receipt names its price year. Canadian prices are converted at the Bank of Canada rate for September 24, 2026 (1.4136 Canadian dollars per U.S. dollar). The then-and-now box uses a price read from an archived copy of the camp’s own rate page for the same session. It adds inflation using the U.S. Consumer Price Index, or Canada’s for Canadian camps, and names the year of each price, since a few early prices come from 2014, 2016, or 2018.
These are posted prices before any discount. In 2025 about a quarter of overnight campers received need-based aid, averaging about $1,700, and first-time campers can often get grants of $1,000 to $1,500, so many families pay less. Sources: camp rate pages, live and archived; Foundation for Jewish Camp census reports; U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; Statistics Canada; Bank of Canada. Prices checked in September 2026.
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The figures here are estimates built from public filings, published price pages and survey samples, and every piece states its own sources, sample sizes and limits in place. Tax filings run a year or more behind and get restated, posted prices change without notice, and a percentage describes the sample observed rather than the whole field. Several rest on small denominators or on voluntary reporting, noted where they appear. Where a number is our own arithmetic rather than a published one, the piece says so and shows the working.
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© 2026 Ḥeshbon, Center on Data and Jewish Life. Research, writing and charts by Gavriel Brown.