Community development lenders

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Community development lenders. Loan funds, banks and venture funds certified by the US Treasury’s CDFI Fund as community development financial institutions. They lend to and invest in small businesses that conventional lenders pass over, mostly in low-income communities. From the CDFI Fund’s List of Certified Community Development Financial Institutions as of 2026-09-17, a workbook linked from its certification page: 1,281 certified CDFIs (160 Bank Holding Company, 184 Bank or Thrift, 367 Credit Union, 561 Loan Fund, 7 Venture Capital, 2 Venture Capital Fund). The list gives each one’s name, type, city, state and website, and whether it is a Native CDFI; it does not say what a CDFI lends for. Listed here are the 754 of type Loan Fund, Bank or Thrift, or Venture Capital Fund (which the list also writes “Venture Capital”). Credit unions and bank holding companies are left out: credit unions lend mostly to consumers, and a holding company’s bank is certified in its own right. No amounts are published in the list, so none are given. City names in capitals are put in title case, and a website written without http is given https. As of September 17, 2026. Source: CDFI Fund: List of Certified CDFIs.

Organizations only: no individuals are listed. A listing is a public record, not a recommendation.

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