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CDFI lenders in Alameda County, CA

2 certified CDFIs name Alameda County or a town in it as part of their service area on their own website. 7 more are headquartered here. 1 more has a bank or credit-union branch here. 8 more say they serve all of California. Sources: lender websites (29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026), the CDFI Fund list (21 Oct 2026) and FDIC/NCUA branch records.

Name this county: 2
Based here: 7
Branch here: 1
Serve all of CA: 8

A lender naming Alameda County on its website is a good sign, not an offer. Lenders based elsewhere may lend here too. Search your exact ZIP code in the finder to include lenders based nearby. Towns in this county: Alameda, Albany, Berkeley, Castro Valley, Dublin, Emeryville, Fremont, Hayward, Livermore, Newark, Oakland, Piedmont….

Lenders compared for Alameda County

19 with local records

Lender	Local records	Loan sizes	Head office
1. Main Street Launch Loan fund, Oakland CA	headquarters here; 16 SBA loans here, FY2020–FY2026	up to $350,000	7 mi
2. Beneficial State Bancorp, Inc. Bank holding company, Oakland CA	headquarters here; 1 office here	ask	7 mi
3. Beneficial State Bank Bank or thrift, Oakland CA	headquarters here; 1 office here	ask	7 mi
4. SMW 104 Federal Credit Union Credit union, Livermore CA	headquarters here; 1 office here	ask	21 mi
5. ICA Fund Venture capital fund, Oakland CA	website names Alameda County; headquarters here	ask	8 mi
6. Change Lending, LLC Loan fund, Anaheim CA	83 home loans here, 2025	up to $3.5M	365 mi
7. Champions Funding, LLC Loan fund, Gilbert AZ	45 home loans here, 2025	up to $3M	663 mi
8. Financial Partners Credit Union Credit union, Downey CA	15 home loans here, 2025	ask	348 mi
9. GTE Federal Credit Union Credit union, Tampa FL	11 home loans here, 2025	ask	2,382 mi
10. Mirastar Federal Credit Union Credit union, San Jose CA	10 home loans here, 2025	ask	32 mi
11. OceanAir Federal Credit Union Credit union, Oxnard CA	8 home loans here, 2025	ask	295 mi
12. MortgageOne, Inc Loan fund, Carlsbad CA	6 home loans here, 2025	$25,000–$2M	419 mi
13. AmPac Tri-State CDC Inc. Loan fund, Ontario CA	4 SBA loans here, FY2020–FY2026	ask	359 mi
14. Mission Valley Bank Bank or thrift, Sun Valley CA	3 SBA loans here, FY2020–FY2026	ask	323 mi
15. Self-Help Federal Credit Union Credit union, Durham NC	1 office here	ask	2,374 mi
16. Habitat Community Capital Loan fund, Oakland CA	headquarters here	ask	7 mi
17. Pacific Community Ventures, Inc. Loan fund, Oakland CA	headquarters here	ask	7 mi
18. TMCCommunityCapital Loan fund, Oakland CA	headquarters here	ask	7 mi
19. Mission Community Loan Fund LLC Loan fund, San Francisco CA	website names Alameda County	$5,000–$10,000	14 mi

16 of these 19 lenders have received CDFI Fund awards, together $133.8M in fiscal years 2007–2024 (CDFI Fund award database; each lender page lists its awards). An award funds the lender, not a particular borrower.

Order: how many kinds of local record we hold (its website names the county or a town in it, headquarters, a branch, SBA loans or HMDA home loans for borrowers here), then the number of those records, then the head office's distance from the county centre. Loan sizes are the range the lender's website states. It is not a rating and nobody pays for a place. SBA loans: SBA 7(a)/504 data (FY2020–FY2026, 3 or more shown); home loans: HMDA 2025 originations (3 or more shown); branches: FDIC/NCUA; distances are straight lines from the average position of the county's ZIP codes.

Where these lenders have offices

16 lenders

13 head offices and 14 branches or offices of 16 lenders on this page, within 35 miles of the centre of Alameda County. Lenders with no office nearby may still lend here; many work by phone and online.

Loan types confirmed on these lenders' websites

Small-business loans (6 lenders)
Affordable housing development loans (3 lenders)
Auto / vehicle loans (2 lenders)
Commercial real estate loans (2 lenders)
Energy / solar / efficiency loans (2 lenders)
SBA-backed loans (7(a)/504/Community Advantage) (2 lenders)
Equity / venture investment (1 lender)
Equipment loans (1 lender)

Banks and credit unions with a branch in this county

4 certified CDFIs have at least one office in Alameda County (FDIC office data as of 30 Oct 2026 and NCUA branch data as of 30 Jun 2026). A branch shows presence, not a stated service area; credit unions also require membership.

CDFI mortgage lenders active here

Certified CDFIs reported 186 originated home loans for properties in Alameda County in 2025 under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act: 0.8% of the 21,958 home loans that all HMDA lenders reported here.

Plus 7 more certified CDFIs with fewer than 3 loans here each (not listed).

A lender headquartered far away can appear here: HMDA counts the county of the property, not of the lender. Banks and credit unions below the HMDA reporting thresholds and most loan funds do not report, so other CDFIs may also lend here.

Source: FFIEC Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data for 2025, snapshot frozen 2 Jun 2026, loan-level records read through the CFPB HMDA Data Browser API on 3 Nov 2026. Originated loans only; applications that were denied, withdrawn or not accepted are not counted. HMDA publishes each loan amount as the middle of a $10,000 band, so totals and medians are approximate. Counts under 3 are not shown. How we match lenders.

Small business and SBA lending in Alameda County

Official statistics

Median household income in Alameda County is $129,367, 31% above the California figure of $99,122 (ACS 2020–2024).

Businesses here took 43.8 SBA-backed loans per 1,000 employer businesses over FY2020–FY2026: fewer than the median California county (47.3), rank 37 of 58.

Measure	Alameda County	California
Businesses with paid employees (CBP 2023)	42,318 (4.1% of the state)	1,029,689
…of which under 20 employees	85%	87%
Businesses without employees (Nonemployer Statistics 2023)	140,901	3,537,469
Median household income (ACS 2020–2024)	$129,367 (31% above the state)	$99,122
SBA 7(a) and 504 approvals, all lenders, FY2020–FY2026	1,852 (1,460 7(a), 392 504)	49,435
…per 1,000 businesses with employees	43.8 (rank 37 of 58 California counties)	47.3 (median county)
Median SBA 7(a) loan, all lenders	$347,750	$270,000
…with a certified CDFI as lender, CDC or third-party lender	27 (1%)	1,260 (3%)
Variable-rate 7(a): median rate over prime at approval, FY2024–26	2.75 pts (613 loans; 12% at the SBA maximum)	2.75 pts (14% at the maximum)

Approvals by fiscal year: FY2020 216 · FY2021 250 · FY2022 240 · FY2023 245 · FY2024 310 · FY2025 346 · FY2026 245.

For comparison, not an offer. SBA figures count approvals by every SBA lender for borrowers whose ZIP code lies in the county, not only CDFIs; approval is not disbursement. Rate over prime = the SBA's recorded initial rate minus the prime rate on the approval day; SBA caps it at 3 to 6.5 points depending on loan size (current prime rate and caps: methodology).

Sources: Census Bureau County Business Patterns 2023, Nonemployer Statistics 2023 and American Community Survey 2020–2024 (table B19013); SBA 7(a) & 504 FOIA data as of 30 Sep 2026; prime rate: FRED DPRIME; SBA maximums: SBA 7(a) terms. Downloaded 15 Nov 2026. How we compute these.

SBA loans made here by CDFIs

SBA data as of 30 Sep 2026

Certified CDFIs were the lender, the CDC or the third-party lender on 27 SBA approvals (26 7(a) loans and 1 504 project) for borrowers in Alameda County in fiscal years 2020–2026, from 6 CDFIs. The 7(a) loans total $15.8M approved.

CDFIs with 3 or more: Main Street Launch (16), AmPac Tri-State CDC Inc. (4), Mission Valley Bank (3). 3 more CDFIs made 1 or 2 each.

Counted by the county of the borrower's ZIP code. Approval is not disbursement. These are only the SBA loans of certified CDFIs; most SBA lenders here are not CDFIs, and CDFIs also lend outside SBA programs.

Source: U.S. Small Business Administration, 7(a) & 504 FOIA loan data, files as of 30 Sep 2026, downloaded 3 Nov 2026. Our counts, cancelled approvals left out. How we match lenders.

CDFI lending recorded here (FY2022)

CDFI Fund data, released Dec 2024

4,808 loans and investments totaling $194.1M (median $5,500) were reported to the CDFI Fund for borrowers and projects in Alameda County in fiscal year 2022, by 45 reporting CDFIs. More than half of these records come from a single reporting CDFI.

Purpose (CDFI Fund category)	Count	Total	Median
Non-real estate microenterprise	4,337	$24.6M	$5,250
Consumer	193	$365,729	$205
Home purchase	94	$61.9M	$528,506
Non-real estate business	70	$19.1M	$79,258
Home improvement	52	$5.9M	$90,275
Real estate: commercial construction, permanent or acquisition	21	$22.7M	$750,000
Other purposes	39	$58.6M

Of 323 individual borrowers whose income was reported, 66% had family income at or below 80% of the area median.

CDFI banks and credit unions also reported 4,694 consumer loans in Alameda County totaling $26.6M (Consumer Loan Report, tract totals, so no median); they counted 12% of them as serving low-income borrowers.

Loans and investments reported in other years: FY2018 4,455 · FY2019 4,514 · FY2020 4,194 · FY2021 6,572.

Only CDFIs that hold an active CDFI Fund award (CDFI Program, Native American CDFI Assistance or the CDFI Rapid Response Program) report these transactions, so this is not all lending by the certified CDFIs on this page. The Fund masks which CDFI made each loan, so we cannot say which lender listed here made them.

Source: CDFI Fund, CDFI/NACA/CDFI RRP Program Award Recipient Data Release, Transaction Level Report and Consumer Loan Report public files for fiscal year 2022 (released Dec 2024; downloaded 3 Nov 2026). Amounts are original loan or investment amounts as reported. Place = the 2010 census tract of each record. How we count.

Lenders whose website names Alameda County or a town in it

Headquartered in Alameda County

The official list gives a headquarters address here. Check each lender's page for where it lends.

Say they serve all of California

Free help before you apply

These offices give free or low-cost advice: a Small Business Development Center or SCORE mentor can help with the business plan, cash-flow projections and paperwork most business lenders ask for, and a HUD-approved housing counselor can help with a homebuyer course, a budget or a missed mortgage payment. Some counseling agencies also lend; using their advice does not commit you to their loans. Call ahead to check hours and what they cover.

Business advice

Housing counseling

Sources: SBA local assistance listings, read 6 Nov 2026; HUD's list of approved housing counseling agencies (open-data version last updated 9 Apr 2025). For the current list and the services each agency offers, use the CFPB's housing counselor search (it uses HUD's list) or call HUD at 800-569-4287. Offices are placed by ZIP code, so distances are approximate.