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The Camp 100: The Complete Ranking of the Most Economically Significant Institutions in Jewish CampLead story
Jewish Summer Camp & Youth · Jun 10, 2026

The Camp 100: The Complete Ranking of the Most Economically Significant Institutions in Jewish Camp

The first ranking of 100 most economically significant Jewish camp institutions is here. Chabad CGI, FJC, JCCA, and Marcus Foundation lead the list.

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Foundation for Jewish Camp
Jewish Summer Camp & Youth · Jun 21, 2026
Foundation for Jewish Camp

The umbrella organization that built the Jewish camp field — and the strategic challenges that test it now. Donor concentration, capacity constraints,…

Inside the Jewish Camp 990s
Jewish Summer Camp & Youth · Jun 11, 2026
Inside the Jewish Camp 990s

Every nonprofit Jewish camp files an annual IRS Form 990. The entire financial structure of the Jewish camp world is in the public record. Olam's meth…

Simad Holdings Chapter 11
Jewish Summer Camp & Youth · Jun 10, 2026
Simad Holdings Chapter 11

Simad Holdings filed Chapter 11. A U.S. DOJ probe, a second PPP-fraud investigation, and $230M+ in debt led to camps being sold in bankruptcy court.

The Global Jewish Camp Map
Jewish Summer Camp & Youth · Jun 14, 2026
The Global Jewish Camp Map

First single-source map of global Jewish summer camp infrastructure — country by country, movement by movement, with the Chabad network that operates…

One Happy Camper
Jewish Summer Camp & Youth · Jun 28, 2026
One Happy Camper

A $1,500 grant. Twenty years. 130,000 first-time campers. How a need-blind, matching, federation-distributed demand-generation system became the most…

Camp Gan Israel: Chabad's Global Camp Network
Jewish Summer Camp & Youth · Jun 23, 2026
Camp Gan Israel: Chabad's Global Camp Network

100,000+ children. Several hundred camps. The largest Jewish camping network on Earth — built on a distributed-operator model that scales where centra…

The Business of Jewish Camp
Jewish Summer Camp & Youth · Jun 18, 2026
The Business of Jewish Camp

Jewish camp operates with a 7% margin on $6,280 per camper for four weeks. High labor costs and a kosher food premium contribute to an $11M financial…

The Camp-to-Israel Pipeline After October 7
Jewish Summer Camp & Youth · Jul 2, 2026
The Camp-to-Israel Pipeline After October 7

RootOne fell 90%. Shlichim flow grew 11%. New NA young-adult camp staff hires grew 25%. The mechanics of the camp-to-Israel pipeline rewrote themselve…