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CDFI lenders in Maine

51 certified CDFIs lend in Maine, going by their own websites, the CDFI Fund list and FDIC/NCUA branch records; 7 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
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Headquartered here
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Who lends in Maine

51 lenders, each counted once

Each lender is listed once, under the strongest evidence we have. 7 certified CDFIs are headquartered in Maine (CDFI Fund list, 21 Oct 2026); 4 of them appear in the first groups because their website names an area here.

By loan type

Lenders that name an area in Maine 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 Maine as their lending area (1)

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

Lend throughout Maine (1)

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

Name Maine or a region of it in their service area (6)

Their website names Maine 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 Maine, no service area stated here (3)

The CDFI Fund list (as of 21 Oct 2026) gives a headquarters address in Maine. The pages we read name no county, town, region or statewide area in Maine, 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.

Say they lend nationwide (40)

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

Show the 40 lenders that say they lend nationwide

More loan types in Maine

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 (3)

SBA Loans (1)

Commercial Real Estate Loans (1)

Mortgages (4)

Home Repair Loans (1)

Personal Loans (1)

Auto Loans (1)

Farm and Agriculture Loans (1)

Affordable Housing Development Loans (2)

Nonprofit Facility Loans (3)

Child-Care Facility Loans (1)

Energy and Solar Loans (1)

CDFI Fund awards

7 of the 7 certified CDFIs headquartered in Maine have received CDFI Fund awards, $64.2 million in total; the largest: Coastal Enterprises, Inc. ($24.5 million), Four Directions Development Corporation ($15.8 million), Genesis Fund, Inc. ($13.8 million). All CDFI Fund award recipients based in Maine, certified today or not: $69 million in 113 awards, 1996–2025.

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.

Free help in Maine

Free or low-cost advice before you apply: 6 Small Business Development Center offices; 1 SCORE chapter; 3 Women's Business Centers; 9 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 Maine

IRS Form 990 data
Loan fundTotal assetsLoans receivableFY ends
Coastal Enterprises, Inc.$125.9M$53.2MSep 2023
Genesis Fund, Inc.$53.6M$42.8MMar 2024
Northern Maine Development Commission$27.3M$24.1MJun 2023
Four Directions Development Corporation$15.6M—Sep 2023
COMMUNITY CONCEPTS FINANCE CORPORATION$12.5M$8MSep 2023
MaineStream Finance$6.9M$5MSep 2023

6 certified loan funds headquartered in Maine are matched to a Form 990 or 990-EZ; median total assets $21.5M. 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 Maine

SBA data as of 30 Sep 2026

Certified CDFIs were the lender, the CDC or the third-party lender on 15 SBA approvals (11 7(a) loans and 4 504 projects) for borrowers in Maine in fiscal years 2020–2026, from 3 CDFIs. The 7(a) loans total $1.6M approved.

Most SBA approvals here: Acadia Federal Credit Union (10), Partners 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.

CDFI lending recorded in Maine (FY2022)

CDFI Fund data, released Dec 2024

451 loans and investments totaling $51.7M (median $15,000) were reported to the CDFI Fund for borrowers and projects in Maine in fiscal year 2022, by 21 reporting CDFIs.

Purpose (CDFI Fund category)CountTotalMedian
Home purchase210$8.2M$5,809
Non-real estate microenterprise117$2.5M$20,000
Non-real estate business44$8.3M$100,000
None of the listed purposes29$2.9M$48,000
Real estate: multifamily housing rehabilitation17$7.8M$255,000
Real estate: commercial rehabilitation14$12.4M$393,952
Other purposes20$9.4M

Of 114 individual borrowers whose income was reported, 68% had family income at or below 80% of the area median.

CDFI banks and credit unions also reported 2,598 consumer loans in Maine totaling $36.5M (Consumer Loan Report, tract totals, so no median); they counted 34% of them as serving low-income borrowers.

Counties with the most recorded loans and investments

Fiscal year 2022; 15 Maine counties have at least three. Records whose tract is not in a county we can match are counted in the state total only.

CountyCountTotal
Aroostook County64$2M
Cumberland County61$20.2M
Penobscot County55$3M
York County55$7.4M
Androscoggin County50$3.5M
Kennebec County49$2.6M
Knox County23$829,984
Hancock County21$4.7M
Somerset County15$2.5M
Washington County13$384,129

Loans and investments reported in other years: FY2018 147 · FY2019 157 · FY2020 113 · FY2021 820.

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 Maine, by city

CDFI Fund list, 21 Oct 2026

7 certified CDFIs: 6 loan funds · 1 credit union; 1 flagged Native. 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/me/. © 2026 CDFI Atlas. Quoting with a link is welcome; republishing the pages or the compiled data is not (terms of use).