NEW YORK — This summer, thousands of young people will go to camp, attend prestigious academic programs and even study filmmaking in Paris thanks to online crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo.

Donors can help middle schoolers learn computer programming in Pennsylvania, support a leadership academy for Virginia teens or send children of incarcerated California parents to sleepaway camp.

There are no statistics for the number of children and teens whose summer activities are being financed through crowdfunding, but Kelsea Little, a spokeswoman for GoFundMe, said fundraising for summer camps is skyrocketing on the site.

Little said more than $4.3 million has been raised for campaigns that specifically mention “summer camp” since GoFundMe started in 2010 — and donations in the category more than tripled between 2013 and 2014. No 2015 numbers exist yet, she said.

There are crowdfunding campaigns for individual youngsters, for groups and for entire programs.

Reel Works, a Brooklyn nonprofit that teaches filmmaking to teens, is using Kickstarter to send five students to Paris, where they will work on a film with five French teens chosen by a Paris-based nonprofit.

The American teens met this month to make a short video about how they imagined life in Paris — it featured a baguette and a fake cigarette — which they sent to their French counterparts in exchange for the French kids’ video about their imagined Brooklyn.

“A lot of the time the thing that gets between kids and their dreams is the amount of money they have,” said Justin Casquejo, 17, one of the filmmaking students. “And crowdfunding is a great way to get around that issue. It’s something I’m really grateful for because I don’t come from a background of a lot of money and I would never in a million years be able to afford a plane ticket to Paris.”

A nonprofit called Wishbone, based in New York, the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles, is using online fundraising to send 400 low-income high school students to summer programs including those at Brown University, Philips Exeter Academy and UCLA.

Wishbone Executive Director Beth Schmidt said the average donation is about $25 and many people donate because the students remind them of themselves. “They say, ‘I had an incredible summer opportunity that changed my life,’” she said.