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CDFI lenders in Georgia

81 certified CDFIs lend in Georgia, going by their own websites, the CDFI Fund list and FDIC/NCUA branch records; 26 are headquartered here. Grouped below by the evidence. Sources: CDFI Fund list as of 21 Oct 2026; lender websites read 29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026.

Lend here
81
Headquartered here
26
Verified from lender sites
74

Who lends in Georgia

81 lenders, each counted once

Each lender is listed once, under the strongest evidence we have. 26 certified CDFIs are headquartered in Georgia (CDFI Fund list, 21 Oct 2026); 8 of them appear in the first groups because their website names an area here.

By loan type

Lenders that name an area in Georgia or are headquartered here and describe the loan type on their own website (Lender websites, read 29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026). Not mentioned does not mean not offered.

County pages

Cities with a CDFI headquarters

A listing here is evidence, not an offer: confirm with the lender that it lends where you are and to borrowers like you. For your exact address, search your ZIP code in the finder.

Name a county or town in Georgia as their lending area (3)

Their own website names a county or town in Georgia where they lend; place names are matched to GeoNames postal data. Source: Lender websites, read 29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026.

Lend throughout Georgia (2)

Their website's service area covers all of Georgia (statewide wording, or a list of whole states). Source: Lender websites, read 29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026.

Name Georgia or a region of it in their service area (12)

Their website names Georgia or a region of it, without saying statewide or naming a county or town. Check the exact area with the lender. Source: Lender websites, read 29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026.

Headquartered in Georgia, no service area stated here (18)

The CDFI Fund list (as of 21 Oct 2026) gives a headquarters address in Georgia. The pages we read name no county, town, region or statewide area in Georgia, or we have not read the lender's website yet; where a lender states an area elsewhere or nationwide, it is shown on its row. Not found does not mean they do not lend here.

Based elsewhere, with a branch or office in Georgia (7)

Banks and credit unions headquartered in another state with at least one office in Georgia (FDIC office data as of 30 Oct 2026, NCUA branch data as of 30 Jun 2026). A branch shows presence, not a stated service area; credit unions also require membership.

Say they lend nationwide (39)

Their website says they lend across the United States and does not exclude Georgia. Source: Lender websites, read 29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026.

Show the 39 lenders that say they lend nationwide

More loan types in Georgia

Lender websites, read 29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026

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

Microloans (5)

Equipment Loans (5)

Home Repair Loans (3)

Credit-Builder Loans (3)

Farm and Agriculture Loans (2)

Affordable Housing Development Loans (3)

Nonprofit Facility Loans (1)

CDFI Fund awards

22 of the 26 certified CDFIs headquartered in Georgia have received CDFI Fund awards, $138 million in total; the largest: Community Housing Capital, Inc. ($21.2 million), Community Redevelopment Loan and Investment Fund, Inc. ($17.6 million), Habitat Capital, LLC ($14.3 million). All CDFI Fund award recipients based in Georgia, certified today or not: $178.7 million in 200 awards, 1996–2025. Separately, Treasury's ECIP invested $29.6 million in 2 certified CDFIs based here.

Awards go to the institutions, not to borrowers; totals exclude New Markets Tax Credit allocations and bond guarantees. All states ranked. Source: CDFI Fund Searchable Awards Database, all 12,628 award records (1996–2025), read 3 Nov 2026. Years are the award round as the database lists it. Source: U.S. Treasury ECIP participant list (last updated Mar 2025), downloaded 3 Nov 2026.

Free help in Georgia

Free or low-cost advice before you apply: 18 Small Business Development Center offices; 7 SCORE chapters; 3 Women's Business Centers; 1 Veterans Business Outreach Center; 55 HUD-approved housing counseling agencies. Each county page lists the ones nearest to it. Sources: SBA local assistance listings (6 Nov 2026) and HUD's list of approved housing counseling agencies (last updated 9 Apr 2025).

Largest nonprofit loan funds based in Georgia

IRS Form 990 data
Loan fundTotal assetsLoans receivableFY ends
Community Housing Capital, Inc.$153.8M$134.9MSep 2023
Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs, Inc.$121.2M$66.9MDec 2023
Community Redevelopment Loan and Investment Fund, Inc.$35.8M$22.7MJun 2023
Small Business Assistance Corporation$21.5M$6.2MSep 2023
Georgia Cities Foundation, Inc.$18.2M$11.1MDec 2023
Albany Community Together, Inc.$9.4M$6.2MDec 2023
Columbus Housing Initiative, Inc$4M—Dec 2022
FCS Community Finance, Inc.$1.3M$595,818Dec 2023

9 certified loan funds headquartered in Georgia are matched to a Form 990 or 990-EZ; median total assets $18.2M. 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.

SBA loans by CDFIs in Georgia

SBA data as of 30 Sep 2026

Certified CDFIs were the lender, the CDC or the third-party lender on 192 SBA approvals (128 7(a) loans and 64 504 projects) for borrowers in Georgia in fiscal years 2020–2026, from 24 CDFIs. The 7(a) loans total $73.8M approved.

Most SBA approvals here: Small Business Assistance Corporation (79), LiftFund, Inc. (17), Security Federal Bank (15), Brightbridge, Inc. (13), Citizens Trust Bank (10).

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.

CDFI lending recorded in Georgia (FY2022)

CDFI Fund data, released Dec 2024

3,598 loans and investments totaling $905.2M (median $50,000) were reported to the CDFI Fund for borrowers and projects in Georgia in fiscal year 2022, by 124 reporting CDFIs.

Purpose (CDFI Fund category)CountTotalMedian
Non-real estate microenterprise1,211$22.7M$15,901
Non-real estate business838$334.8M$129,718
Home purchase449$116.1M$191,650
Home improvement376$32M$30,806
Real estate: single-family housing rehabilitation194$57.6M$98,915
Real estate: commercial construction, permanent or acquisition175$150M$250,000
Other purposes355$191.9M

Of 646 individual borrowers whose income was reported, 62% had family income at or below 80% of the area median.

CDFI banks and credit unions also reported 90,063 consumer loans in Georgia totaling $266.2M (Consumer Loan Report, tract totals, so no median); they counted 42% of them as serving low-income borrowers.

Counties with the most recorded loans and investments

Fiscal year 2022; 67 Georgia counties have at least three. Records whose tract is not in a county we can match are counted in the state total only.

CountyCountTotal
Fulton County431$200.2M
Colquitt County290$73.3M
DeKalb County253$56.9M
Tift County251$72.4M
Chatham County232$5.9M
Gwinnett County217$30.7M
Lowndes County169$99.9M
Cobb County133$41.8M
Worth County114$24.1M
Crisp County108$28.2M

Loans and investments reported in other years: FY2018 821 · FY2019 731 · FY2020 2,942 · FY2021 51,294.

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 Georgia, by city

CDFI Fund list, 21 Oct 2026

26 certified CDFIs: 11 loan funds · 4 credit unions · 6 banks or thrifts · 5 bank holding companies. A headquarters address is not a service area; each lender is also listed in its group above.

CDFI Atlas is not a lender and does not give financial advice. Inclusion is not an endorsement, and lenders have not reviewed or approved these pages. Disclaimer.

Source: CDFI Atlas, cdfiatlas.com/states/ga/. © 2026 CDFI Atlas. Quoting with a link is welcome; republishing the pages or the compiled data is not (terms of use).