CDFI lenders in District of Columbia

• 1 · Lend statewideLender websites, read 29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026
• 2 · Name District of Columbia or part of itLender websites, read 29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026
• 19 · Headquartered here, no area statedCDFI Fund list, 21 Oct 2026
• 37 · Say they lend nationwideLender websites, read 29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026

Each lender is listed once, under the strongest evidence we have. 20 certified CDFIs are headquartered in District of Columbia (CDFI Fund list, 21 Oct 2026); 1 of them appears in the first groups because their website names an area here.

Loan types with too few lenders here for a page of their own. Each row quotes the lender's website.

10 certified loan funds headquartered in District of Columbia are matched to a Form 990 or 990-EZ; median total assets $24.3M. End-of-year figures self-reported to the IRS, from the IRS Annual Extract of Tax-Exempt Organization Financial Data; each row shows its own fiscal year. Assets are the organisation’s whole balance sheet, not only its loans; “Loans receivable” is Form 990 Part X line 7 (notes and loans receivable); “—” means that line was empty or zero, not that the fund has no loans.

Certified CDFIs were the lender, the CDC or the third-party lender on 18 SBA approvals (18 7(a) loans) for borrowers in District of Columbia in fiscal years 2020–2026, from 6 CDFIs. The 7(a) loans total $17M approved.

Most SBA approvals here: Industrial Bank (9), City First Bank, N.A. (4).

Approval is not disbursement. Each lender page shows its own SBA figures.

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.

361 loans and investments totaling $172.4M (median $9,567) were reported to the CDFI Fund for borrowers and projects in District of Columbia in fiscal year 2022, by 39 reporting CDFIs.

Of 44 individual borrowers whose income was reported, 55% had family income at or below 80% of the area median.

CDFI banks and credit unions also reported 4,449 consumer loans in District of Columbia totaling $17M (Consumer Loan Report, tract totals, so no median); they counted 38% of them as serving low-income borrowers.

Counties with the most recorded loans and investments

Fiscal year 2022; 1 District of Columbia county has at least three. Records whose tract is not in a county we can match are counted in the state total only.

Loans and investments reported in other years: FY2018 131 · FY2019 153 · FY2020 229 · FY2021 1,798.

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.

20 certified CDFIs: 15 loan funds · 2 credit unions · 2 banks or thrifts · 1 bank holding company. A headquarters address is not a service area; each lender is also listed in its group above.

• Washington (20): Baba's Cooking School LLC dba EatsPlace, Building Hope Finance, CBA Fund, City First Bank, N.A., City First Enterprises Inc, City First Homes Inc., DC Federal Credit Union, DEVELOPING AFFORDABLE STARTER HOMES FUND, LLC, Housing Assistance Council, Industrial Bank, Institute for Community Economics, Latino Economic Development Corporation of Washington, D.C. DBA is: Latino Economic Development Center, Life Asset, Inc., NCRC Community Development Fund, Inc, National Housing Trust Community Development Fund, O.A.S. Staff Federal Credit Union, Opportunity Finance Network, Partners for the Common Good, Inc., Resident Ownership Capital, LLC dba ROC USA Capital, Washington Area Community Investment Fund · city page