CDFI lenders in Calcasieu Parish, LA

6 of these 7 lenders have received CDFI Fund awards, together $37.3M in fiscal years 2011–2024 (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.

1 head office and 17 branches or offices of 3 lenders on this page, within 35 miles of the centre of Calcasieu Parish. Lenders with no office nearby may still lend here; many work by phone and online.

CDFI mortgage lenders active here

Certified CDFIs reported 140 originated home loans for properties in Calcasieu Parish in 2025 under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act: 5.0% of the 2,826 home loans that all HMDA lenders reported here.

• JD BankBank or thrift · Jennings, LAAgriculture / farm loans, Auto / vehicle loans, Home repair / improvement loans, Home mortgages…68 home loans here in 2025 (HMDA)Verified
• Southwest Louisiana Credit UnionCredit union · Lake Charles, LAAuto / vehicle loans, Home mortgages, Personal / consumer loans53 home loans here in 2025 (HMDA)Verified
• Pelican Credit UnionCredit union · Baton Rouge, LAAuto / vehicle loans, Commercial real estate loans, Equipment loans, Home mortgages…10 home loans here in 2025 (HMDA)Verified
• Champions Funding, LLCLoan fund · Gilbert, AZHome mortgages3 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 Originated loans only; applications that were denied, withdrawn or not accepted are not counted.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.

Median household income in Calcasieu Parish is $67,564, 11% above the Louisiana figure of $60,756 (ACS 2020–2024).

Businesses here took 26.4 SBA-backed loans per 1,000 employer businesses over FY2020–FY2026: more than the median Louisiana county (19.2), rank 17 of 64.

Approvals by fiscal year: FY2020 9 · FY2021 22 · FY2022 16 · FY2023 22 · FY2024 24 · FY2025 19 · FY2026 12.

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.

Certified CDFIs were the lender, the CDC or the third-party lender on 11 SBA approvals (10 7(a) loans and 1 504 project) for borrowers in Calcasieu Parish in fiscal years 2020–2026, from 5 CDFIs. The 7(a) loans total $9.8M approved.

CDFIs with 3 or more: American Bancshares, Inc. (5), Peoples Bank (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.

212 loans and investments totaling $54.5M (median $88,200) were reported to the CDFI Fund for borrowers and projects in Calcasieu Parish in fiscal year 2022, by 22 reporting CDFIs. More than half of these records come from a single reporting CDFI.

Of 144 individual borrowers whose income was reported, 42% had family income at or below 80% of the area median.

CDFI banks and credit unions also reported 3,854 consumer loans in Calcasieu Parish totaling $43.3M (Consumer Loan Report, tract totals, so no median); they counted 68% of them as serving low-income borrowers.

Loans and investments reported in other years: FY2018 25 · FY2019 161 · FY2020 77 · FY2021 425.

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.