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CDFI lenders in Ventura County, CA
1 certified CDFI names Ventura County or a town in it as part of their service area on their own website. 2 more are headquartered here. 11 more say they serve all of California. Sources: lender websites (29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026), the CDFI Fund list (21 Oct 2026).
- Name this county
- 1
- Based here
- 2
- Serve all of CA
- 11
A lender naming Ventura 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: Brandeis, Camarillo, Fillmore, Moorpark, Newbury Park, Oak Park, Oak View, Ojai, Oxnard, Piru, Point Mugu Nawc, Port Hueneme….
Lenders compared for Ventura County
10 with local records| Lender | Local records | Loan sizes | Head office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. OceanAir Federal Credit Union Credit union, Oxnard CA | headquarters here; 4 offices here; 154 home loans here, 2025 | ask | 8 mi |
| 2. Housing Trust Fund Ventura County Loan fund, Camarillo CA | website names Ventura County; headquarters here | $250,000–$5M | 2 mi |
| 3. Change Lending, LLC Loan fund, Anaheim CA | 51 home loans here, 2025 | up to $3.5M | 78 mi |
| 4. Champions Funding, LLC Loan fund, Gilbert AZ | 35 home loans here, 2025 | up to $3M | 426 mi |
| 5. MortgageOne, Inc Loan fund, Carlsbad CA | 24 home loans here, 2025 | $25,000–$2M | 125 mi |
| 6. Financial Partners Credit Union Credit union, Downey CA | 19 home loans here, 2025 | ask | 56 mi |
| 7. GTE Federal Credit Union Credit union, Tampa FL | 17 home loans here, 2025 | ask | 2,195 mi |
| 8. AmPac Tri-State CDC Inc. Loan fund, Ontario CA | 6 SBA loans here, FY2020–FY2026 | ask | 82 mi |
| 9. USC Credit Union Credit union, Los Angeles CA | 5 home loans here, 2025 | ask | 45 mi |
| 10. Ventura County Community Development Corporation Loan fund, Oxnard CA | headquarters here | up to $713,000 | 8 mi |
8 of these 10 lenders have received CDFI Fund awards, together $26.3M in fiscal years 2004–2024 (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
4 lenders3 head offices and 4 branches or offices of 4 lenders on this page, within 35 miles of the centre of Ventura County. Lenders with no office nearby may still lend here; many work by phone and online.
Head officeBranch or officeApproximate (ZIP code area)
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Loan types confirmed on these lenders' websites
- Affordable housing development loans (1 lender)
- Auto / vehicle loans (1 lender)
- Home repair / improvement loans (1 lender)
- Personal / consumer loans (1 lender)
- Home mortgages (1 lender)
Banks and credit unions with a branch in this county
1 certified CDFI has at least one office in Ventura County (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 313 originated home loans for properties in Ventura County in 2025 under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act: 2.5% of the 12,645 home loans that all HMDA lenders reported here.
- OceanAir Federal Credit UnionCredit union · Oxnard, CAAuto / vehicle loans, Home repair / improvement loans, Personal / consumer loans154 home loans here in 2025 (HMDA)Verified
- Change Lending, LLCLoan fund · Anaheim, CAHome mortgages51 home loans here in 2025 (HMDA)Verified
- Champions Funding, LLCLoan fund · Gilbert, AZHome mortgages35 home loans here in 2025 (HMDA)Verified
- MortgageOne, IncLoan fund · Carlsbad, CAHome mortgages24 home loans here in 2025 (HMDA)Verified
- Financial Partners Credit UnionCredit union · Downey, CA19 home loans here in 2025 (HMDA)Official list only
- GTE Federal Credit UnionCredit union · Tampa, FLHome mortgages, Personal / consumer loans17 home loans here in 2025 (HMDA)Verified
- USC Credit UnionCredit union · Los Angeles, CAAuto / vehicle loans, Energy / solar / efficiency loans, Home mortgages, Personal / consumer loans5 home loans here in 2025 (HMDA)Verified
Plus 6 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 Ventura County
Official statisticsMedian household income in Ventura County is $109,797, 11% above the California figure of $99,122 (ACS 2020–2024).
Businesses here took 52.2 SBA-backed loans per 1,000 employer businesses over FY2020–FY2026: more than the median California county (47.3), rank 15 of 58.
| Measure | Ventura County | California |
|---|---|---|
| Businesses with paid employees (CBP 2023) | 22,992 (2.2% of the state) | 1,029,689 |
| …of which under 20 employees | 88% | 87% |
| Businesses without employees (Nonemployer Statistics 2023) | 70,862 | 3,537,469 |
| Median household income (ACS 2020–2024) | $109,797 (11% above the state) | $99,122 |
| SBA 7(a) and 504 approvals, all lenders, FY2020–FY2026 | 1,200 (933 7(a), 267 504) | 49,435 |
| …per 1,000 businesses with employees | 52.2 (rank 15 of 58 California counties) | 47.3 (median county) |
| Median SBA 7(a) loan, all lenders | $250,000 | $270,000 |
| …with a certified CDFI as lender, CDC or third-party lender | 11 (1%) | 1,260 (3%) |
| Variable-rate 7(a): median rate over prime at approval, FY2024–26 | 2.75 pts (450 loans; 14% at the SBA maximum) | 2.75 pts (14% at the maximum) |
Approvals by fiscal year: FY2020 126 · FY2021 164 · FY2022 142 · FY2023 153 · FY2024 208 · FY2025 221 · FY2026 186.
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 2026Certified CDFIs were the lender, the CDC or the third-party lender on 11 SBA approvals (8 7(a) loans and 3 504 projects) for borrowers in Ventura County in fiscal years 2020–2026, from 5 CDFIs. The 7(a) loans total $5.4M approved.
CDFIs with 3 or more: AmPac Tri-State CDC Inc. (6). 4 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 2024239 loans and investments totaling $102.7M (median $121,925) were reported to the CDFI Fund for borrowers and projects in Ventura County in fiscal year 2022, by 24 reporting CDFIs.
| Purpose (CDFI Fund category) | Count | Total | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home purchase | 107 | $47.3M | $200,000 |
| Home improvement | 53 | $7.3M | $135,000 |
| Non-real estate microenterprise | 30 | $329,204 | $4,875 |
| None of the listed purposes | 21 | $6.5M | $157,501 |
| Non-real estate business | 15 | $3.7M | $100,000 |
| Real estate: commercial construction, permanent or acquisition | 6 | $28.1M | $1.8M |
| Other purposes | 7 | $9.5M |
Of 164 individual borrowers whose income was reported, 36% had family income at or below 80% of the area median.
CDFI banks and credit unions also reported 1,998 consumer loans in Ventura County totaling $27.2M (Consumer Loan Report, tract totals, so no median); they counted 19% of them as serving low-income borrowers.
Loans and investments reported in other years: FY2018 84 · FY2019 72 · FY2020 109 · FY2021 643.
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 Ventura County or a town in it
Headquartered in Ventura County
The official list gives a headquarters address here. Check each lender's page for where it lends.
- OceanAir Federal Credit UnionCredit union · Oxnard, CAAuto / vehicle loans, Home repair / improvement loans, Personal / consumer loansVerified
- Ventura County Community Development CorporationLoan fund · Oxnard, CAHome mortgagesVerified
Say they serve all of California
- Beneficial State Bancorp, Inc.Bank holding company · Oakland, CAAuto / vehicle loans, Commercial real estate loans, Energy / solar / efficiency loans, Affordable housing development loans…Verified
- Beneficial State BankBank or thrift · Oakland, CAAuto / vehicle loans, Commercial real estate loans, Energy / solar / efficiency loans, Equipment loans…Verified
- California Community Reinvestment Corp.Loan fund · Glendale, CAAffordable housing development loansVerified
- Century Housing CorporationLoan fund · Culver City, CAAffordable housing development loansVerified
- Community Vision Capital and ConsultingLoan fund · San Francisco, CACommercial real estate loansVerified
- Excite Credit UnionCredit union · San Jose, CAAuto / vehicle loans, Small-dollar / emergency loans, Home mortgages, Personal / consumer loans…Verified
- First Community Capital, Inc.Loan fund · Riverside, CASmall-dollar / emergency loans, Microloans, Nonprofit / community facility loans, Personal / consumer loans…Verified
- Northeast Community Federal Credit UnionCredit union · San Francisco, CASmall-business loansVerified
- Self-Help Federal Credit UnionCredit union · Durham, NCVerified
- TMCCommunityCapitalLoan fund · Oakland, CAMicroloans, Small-business loansVerified
- Working Solutions CDFILoan fund · San Francisco, CASmall-business loansVerified
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
- California SBDC ~ Los Angeles ~ Los Angeles Regional SBDC ~ Economic Development CollaborativeSmall Business Development Center · 4001 Mission Oaks Blvd, Suite A-1, Camarillo, CA 93012805-384-1800
- Ventura County SCORESCORE mentoring · Simi Valley, CA 93065800-634-0245
- NEW-WBC - New Economics for Women - Women's Business CenterWomen's Business Center · 18700 Sherman Way, Suite 118, Reseda, CA 91335213-483-2060 · about 29 miles from the centre of Ventura County
Housing counseling
- Centro Familia EsperanzaHUD-approved housing counselor · 1720 E Los Angeles Ave Ste 216, Simi Valley, CA 93065805-813-8751
- Lutheran Social Services of Southern California - Ventura County Care Center BranchHUD-approved housing counselor · 80 E. Hillcrest Dr, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
- Money Management International - OaklandHUD-approved housing counselor · 80 N Wood Rd Ste 200, Camarillo, CA 93010866-232-9080
- Ventura County Community Development CorporatonHUD-approved housing counselor · 2231 Sturgis Rd Unit A, Oxnard, CA 93030805-273-7800
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.
Other California counties
Source: CDFI Atlas, cdfiatlas.com/states/ca/counties/ventura-county/. © 2026 CDFI Atlas. Quoting with a link is welcome; republishing the pages or the compiled data is not (terms of use).