FY2025 · Building a belief for 10 years
The data behind Camp Catanese's decade of college access work.
Every camper, scholarship dollar, and graduating senior — tracked year over year, editable as new numbers come in, and ready to answer your questions.
Where things stand
A snapshot across every tracked category, most recent year first.
All metrics
Add a new data point in plain language — Camp Cat will match it to the right metric and log the change.
Recent updates
Ask about the data
Grounded in every metric tracked above — asks a real question, gets a real reasoned answer.
About the data
Sourced from Camp Catanese's FY2024 and FY2025 annual reports, plus anything you add here.
Camp Catanese Foundation prepares underserved students in the Phoenix area for college and career opportunities through STEAM and educational programming, team-building, and social experiences. Since its first summer camp in 2016, the organization has grown from 120 campers to a year-round ecosystem of summer camp, winter camp, junior/senior retreats, tutoring, and alumni support.
About Camp Catanese
History
Camp Catanese was founded in 2016 by Jason Catanese, a middle school math teacher, coach, and Teach for America alumnus in Phoenix, Arizona. Like many educators, Jason witnesses not only the challenges his students and their families face – poverty, transience, lack of resources – but also their resilience and unbridled potential! Fueled by his passion for summer camp and love for his students, Jason and a group of colleagues set out to create a fun, educational enrichment program to ensure that his students, and other low-income students, are on track to attend and succeed in college and beyond!
Camp Catanese Miami
To make Camp Catanese Miami possible, we will launch a week-long
Pilot Camp in partnership with community champions and a local university partner. One hundred 8th - 12th grade students will stay overnight in dorms, be grouped in “cabins” with mentors from across the country, explore different careers and majors, learn what it takes to apply for and enroll in college, and have fun with their peers! Ultimately, they will leave camp with a heightened belief that they can and will pursue higher education and have new skills to ensure they are on a pathway to success in college!
Watch our 2023 Camp Trailer Below!
View our FY23 Annual Report
Camp Catanese and the staff changed my life. I never thought I would graduate high school and now I'm enrolled in college! My mom and I are forever grateful to Mr. Cat and the amazing staff for all the opportunities they gave me and my friends!
-Kimberly G.