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CDFI lenders in Hillsborough County, FL

5 are headquartered here. 4 more say they serve all of Florida. Sources: lender websites (29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026), the CDFI Fund list (21 Oct 2026).

Name this county: 0
Based here: 5
Serve all of FL: 4

None of the lender websites we read names Hillsborough County; the lenders below are based here, have an office here or serve the whole state. Lenders based elsewhere may lend here too. Search your exact ZIP code in the finder to include lenders based nearby. Towns in this county: Apollo Beach, Balm, Brandon, Dover, Durant, Gibsonton, Lithia, Lutz, Mango, Odessa, Plant City, Riverview….

Lenders compared for Hillsborough County

11 with local records

Lender	Local records	Loan sizes	Head office
1. Suncoast Credit Union Credit union, Tampa FL	headquarters here; 17 offices here; 11 SBA loans here, FY2020–FY2026; 1,862 home loans here, 2025	ask	4 mi
2. GTE Federal Credit Union Credit union, Tampa FL	headquarters here; 11 offices here; 18 SBA loans here, FY2020–FY2026; 292 home loans here, 2025	ask	4 mi
3. Tampa Bay Federal Credit Union Credit union, Tampa FL	headquarters here; 5 offices here; 9 home loans here, 2025	ask	5 mi
4. Champions Funding, LLC Loan fund, Gilbert AZ	117 home loans here, 2025	up to $3M	1,775 mi
5. Change Lending, LLC Loan fund, Anaheim CA	67 home loans here, 2025	up to $3.5M	2,125 mi
6. MortgageOne, Inc Loan fund, Carlsbad CA	16 home loans here, 2025	$25,000–$2M	2,098 mi
7. Launch Credit Union Credit union, Merritt Island FL	4 home loans here, 2025	ask	109 mi
8. BBIF Capital, Inc. Loan fund, Orlando FL	3 SBA loans here, FY2020–FY2026	ask	76 mi
9. SELF-HELP CREDIT UNION Credit union, Durham NC	3 home loans here, 2025	ask	598 mi
10. Neighborhood Lending Partners of Florida, Inc. Loan fund, Tampa FL	headquarters here	ask	6 mi
11. Solitas House, Inc. Loan fund, Tampa FL	headquarters here	ask	7 mi

9 of these 11 lenders have received CDFI Fund awards, together $62.5M in fiscal years 1997–2024 (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

5 lenders

5 head offices and 52 branches or offices of 5 lenders on this page, within 30 miles of the centre of Hillsborough County. Lenders with no office nearby may still lend here; many work by phone and online.

Loan types confirmed on these lenders' websites

Home mortgages (2 lenders)
Personal / consumer loans (2 lenders)
Commercial real estate loans (1 lender)
Affordable housing development loans (1 lender)
Nonprofit / community facility loans (1 lender)
Auto / vehicle loans (1 lender)
Credit-builder loans (1 lender)

Banks and credit unions with a branch in this county

3 certified CDFIs have at least one office in Hillsborough 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 2,375 originated home loans for properties in Hillsborough County in 2025 under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act: 7.8% of the 30,459 home loans that all HMDA lenders reported here.

Plus 5 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 Hillsborough County

Official statistics

Median household income in Hillsborough County is $79,540, 7% above the Florida figure of $74,568 (ACS 2020–2024).

Businesses here took 51.1 SBA-backed loans per 1,000 employer businesses over FY2020–FY2026: more than the median Florida county (36.2), rank 7 of 67.

Measure	Hillsborough County	Florida
Businesses with paid employees (CBP 2023)	42,977 (6.7% of the state)	645,575
…of which under 20 employees	86%	88%
Businesses without employees (Nonemployer Statistics 2023)	188,229	3,117,327
Median household income (ACS 2020–2024)	$79,540 (7% above the state)	$74,568
SBA 7(a) and 504 approvals, all lenders, FY2020–FY2026	2,197 (1,850 7(a), 347 504)	29,770
…per 1,000 businesses with employees	51.1 (rank 7 of 67 Florida counties)	36.2 (median county)
Median SBA 7(a) loan, all lenders	$300,000	$250,000
…with a certified CDFI as lender, CDC or third-party lender	37 (2%)	370 (1%)
Variable-rate 7(a): median rate over prime at approval, FY2024–26	2.75 pts (863 loans; 13% at the SBA maximum)	2.75 pts (15% at the maximum)

Approvals by fiscal year: FY2020 194 · FY2021 302 · FY2022 283 · FY2023 312 · FY2024 377 · FY2025 390 · FY2026 339.

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 37 SBA approvals (20 7(a) loans and 17 504 projects) for borrowers in Hillsborough County in fiscal years 2020–2026, from 6 CDFIs. The 7(a) loans total $13.7M approved.

CDFIs with 3 or more: GTE Federal Credit Union (18), Suncoast Credit Union (11), BBIF Capital, Inc. (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

3,661 loans and investments totaling $487.9M (median $70,000) were reported to the CDFI Fund for borrowers and projects in Hillsborough County in fiscal year 2022, by 47 reporting CDFIs. More than half of these records come from a single reporting CDFI.

Purpose (CDFI Fund category)	Count	Total	Median
Home improvement	1,873	$115.7M	$50,000
Home purchase	1,202	$279.8M	$209,300
Non-real estate microenterprise	373	$5.8M	$14,000
Non-real estate business	106	$32.2M	$79,186
Consumer	61	$336,946	$3,500
Real estate: commercial construction, permanent or acquisition	26	$45.8M	$750,000
Other purposes	19	$7.5M

Of 3,121 individual borrowers whose income was reported, 44% had family income at or below 80% of the area median.

CDFI banks and credit unions also reported 63,525 consumer loans in Hillsborough County totaling $1.2B (Consumer Loan Report, tract totals, so no median); they counted 63% of them as serving low-income borrowers.

Loans and investments reported in other years: FY2018 2,054 · FY2019 2,266 · FY2020 3,726 · FY2021 8,140.

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.

Headquartered in Hillsborough County

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

Say they serve all of Florida

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.