I spoke to quite a few people who went to camp from 1960s- 1990s and the focus was to enable to children to escape the city not to get rich on yinnem chesben, one person told me the camp charged 650 dollars for 5 kids payable over the year [his father was delivery truck driver].
There were federation camps like Mogen Av and Sternberg that charged next to nothing, if you were borderline frum or dirt poor the Lubavitcher camps took you in at next to no cost. The administration consisted of survivors or children of survivors and hence totally different focus on the why they have the camp in the first place.
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