CDFI lenders in Illinois

• 5 · Name a county or town in ILLender websites, read 29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026
• 4 · Lend statewideLender websites, read 29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026
• 2 · Name Illinois or part of itLender websites, read 29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026
• 22 · Headquartered here, no area statedCDFI Fund list, 21 Oct 2026
• 2 · Based elsewhere, branch hereFDIC office data as of 30 Oct 2026, NCUA branch data as of 30 Jun 2026
• 38 · Say they lend nationwideLender websites, read 29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026

Each lender is listed once, under the strongest evidence we have. 28 certified CDFIs are headquartered in Illinois (CDFI Fund list, 21 Oct 2026); 6 of them appear 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.

9 certified loan funds headquartered in Illinois are matched to a Form 990 or 990-EZ; median total assets $35.6M. 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 46 SBA approvals (34 7(a) loans and 12 504 projects) for borrowers in Illinois in fiscal years 2020–2026, from 12 CDFIs. The 7(a) loans total $21M approved.

Most SBA approvals here: Justine Petersen Housing and Reinvestment Corporation (9), First Eagle Bank (8), Peoples Bank (8), International Bank of Chicago (6), Mission Valley Bank (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.

6,697 loans and investments totaling $1.1B (median $24,370) were reported to the CDFI Fund for borrowers and projects in Illinois in fiscal year 2022, by 98 reporting CDFIs.

Of 2,213 individual borrowers whose income was reported, 51% had family income at or below 80% of the area median.

CDFI banks and credit unions also reported 49,437 consumer loans in Illinois totaling $426.3M (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; 36 Illinois counties have 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 1,576 · FY2019 1,812 · FY2020 3,927 · FY2021 34,981.

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.

28 certified CDFIs: 11 loan funds · 11 credit unions · 2 banks or thrifts · 2 bank holding companies · 2 venture capital funds. A headquarters address is not a service area; each lender is also listed in its group above.

• Chicago (23): Allies for Community Business, Inc., Berean Credit Union, C3 Impact Fund, LLC, Chicago Community Loan Fund, The, Cinnaire Lending Corporation, Community Investment Corporation, Fellowship Baptist Church Credit Union Inc, First Eagle Bancshares, First Eagle Bank, Greenwood Archer Capital, Inc., IFF, International Bank of Chicago, Israel Methcomm FCU, Maroon Financial Credit Union, National Community Investment Fund, Neighborhood Lending Services, Inc., Park Manor Christian Church Credit Union, Shiloh Englewood Federal Credit Union, South Side Community Federal Credit Union, St Helena Parish Credit Union, TRP Lending, LLC, Unified Homeowners of Illinois Federal Credit Union, Vicinity Credit Union · city page
• Rantoul (1): Community Plus Federal Credit Union
• Rock Island (1): Bridge Investment Community Development Corporation
• Rockford (1): Rockford Community Investment Fund
• Schaumburg (1): Charter School Finance and Development Inc
• Stone Park (1): IBC Bancorp, Inc.