CAMPWDAYCAMP

What CAMPWDAYCAMP does

Camp W Day Camp is a privately held, founder-owned traditional summer day camp operating on a seven-acre site in Melville, Long Island, New York, serving children from Pre-K through 9th grade across Nassau and Suffolk counties. The camp, founded in 2012 by Evan Wofsy after his tenure at Camp Horizons and earlier years as a camper and counselor at Brooklake Day Camp, structures its offering into three age-segmented divisions — Kiddie Camp (Pre-K-1st grade), Middle Camp (2nd-4th grade), and Upper Camp (5th-9th grade) — with a unified activity catalog spanning athletics, creative arts, and specialty offerings such as go-karts, virtual reality, podcasting, and ceramics. Operational infrastructure includes 17 air-conditioned indoor rooms, an instructional swim program at Dix Hills Park staffed by Red Cross certified instructors, bus transportation routes serving roughly a dozen surrounding Long Island towns, a full-time camp nurse, early/late care add-on hours, and capacity-limited Trip Weeks 8 and 9.

The business model is direct-to-consumer tuition-based, with families enrolling children for 2-to-9-week summer programs and paying per-week rates that include Early Bird discount tiers and a separate $1,000/week rate for Trip Weeks 8 and 9 when not under Early Bird pricing. The offering is American Camping Association accredited, providing a sector-standard compliance and parent-trust credential. Year-round monetization is augmented by an online branded merchandise store (campw.boldstores.com) and an owned-media footprint spanning a Spotify podcast, YouTube weekly videos, Facebook, and Instagram channels, which function as marketing and brand-building assets rather than as direct revenue lines.

Camp W is not a venture or growth-equity candidate. It is a small, single-site, founder-operated seasonal services business with no disclosed revenue, no institutional funding, no parent company, no subsidiaries, and a year-round staff profile of roughly five office personnel augmented by large seasonal counselor and specialist hiring. The unit economics are bounded by the physical site's capacity, the 9-week operating window, and the geographic concentration of demand on Long Island, making it structurally a lifestyle-scale operating business rather than a scalable platform.

Name

CAMPWDAYCAMP

Legal name

Camp W Day Camp

Website

https://campwdaycamp.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Camp W Day Camp is a privately held, ACA-accredited traditional summer day camp in Melville, Long Island, serving children Pre-K through 9th grade from Nassau and Suffolk counties with age-segmented programs, bus transportation, swim instruction, and an online merchandise store.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Children's Summer Day Camp

NAICS

RV (Recreational Vehicle) Parks and Recreational Camps (7212), Sports and Recreation Instruction (61162)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Multi-Activity Enrichment Camps (Academic + Arts + Sports) (EDAMALAA)

Keywords

• Summer day camp
• Children day camp
• Camp programs
• Seasonal youth camp
• Long Island camp

Headquarters

HQ city

Melville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Infrastructure

Core offering

Camp W Day Camp is a private summer day camp located in Melville, Long Island, New York, that operates seasonal programs for children in Pre-K through 9th grade. The camp enrolls children in two-to-nine-week summer sessions, providing age-tiered programming (Kiddie Camp, Middle Camp, Upper Camp), over 80 activities across athletics, creative arts, and specialty areas, an optional Red Cross certified instructional swim program, bus transportation, early/late care, and dedicated trip weeks. Revenue is generated primarily through weekly session tuition fees paid by families.

Product overview

Camp W Day Camp is a traditional summer day camp for children in Pre-K through 9th grade, operating on Long Island in Melville, NY. The camp offers three core age-based programs (Kiddie Camp for Pre-K-1st grade, Middle Camp for 2nd-4th grade, and Upper Camp for 5th-9th grade), each with varying activity options and group sizes. The camp provides an optional Early/Late Care Program, instructional swim program at Dix Hills Park, and over 80 activities across athletics, creative arts, and unique specialty activities. Weeks 8 and 9 are dedicated trip weeks with enrollment limits. The camp is accredited by the American Camping Association and features seven acres of playing fields, seventeen air-conditioned rooms, and bus transportation to nearby towns.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Kiddie Camp Summer day camp program for children in Pre-K through 1st grade, featuring modified athletic fields, a Kiddie Village, junior motorized cars, two professional shows weekly, special Kiddie Camp Fun Events on Tuesdays, daily snacks, and an optional Red Cross certified instructional swim program.
• Middle Camp
• Upper Camp
• Early/Late Care Program
• Trip Weeks (Weeks 8 & 9)
• Camp W Store

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Woodward Parkway Day Camp: Long Island day camp serving Nassau/Suffolk families with similar age-group divisions, instructional swim, bus transportation, and traditional camp programming.
• Brooklake Day Camp: Long Island day camp where Camp W founder Evan Wofsy spent 14 summers as camper and counselor. Directly comparable traditional age-tiered day-camp model serving Nassau/Suffolk families.
• Crestwood Country Day Camp: Established Long Island day camp operating multi-activity programming (athletics, arts, swimming) for similar Pre-K through 9th-grade age range on a comparable single-site facility model.

Others

• Camp Horizons: Closed Long Island day camp where Wofsy worked 22 years; relevant as the historical predecessor whose closure created the founding opportunity for Camp W, and as a benchmark operating model.

Broad incumbents

• Steve & Kate's Camp: Multi-location US day camp operator with broader geographic footprint; comparable day-camp business model (drop-any-day, choice-driven programming) but operates at significantly larger scale.
• Galileo Learning: Multi-site operator of summer day camps focused on innovation, arts, and outdoor activities for elementary-age children; comparable enrollment-driven day-camp model with broader geographic reach.
• 92Y Day Camp: New York-area day camp operated by a major community institution; comparable traditional multi-activity summer day camp with bus transportation and tiered age programming.

Emerging players

• iD Tech: National operator of summer STEM and tech-focused day camps; comparable seasonal day-camp delivery model for K-9 children, but differentiated by STEM specialty versus Camp W's multi-activity breadth.

Regional players

• Fresh Air Fund: New York-region nonprofit summer program provider serving children with camp experiences; comparable mission of structured summer programming for kids in the greater NYC/Long Island area.
• All My Children Day Camp: Long Island/New York City day camp operator with tiered age programming, instructional swim, and bus transportation; comparable regional day-camp delivery model serving similar suburban families.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCWuEP6V013ie2zyhAgjxlvg/videos
• Facebookfacebook.com/campwdaycamp
• Instagraminstagram.com/campwdaycamp

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles16 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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