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CDFI lenders in Bronx County, NY

5 certified CDFIs name Bronx County or a town in it as part of their service area on their own website. 5 more are headquartered here. 2 more say they serve all of New York. Sources: lender websites (29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026), the CDFI Fund list (21 Oct 2026).

Name this county
5
Based here
5
Serve all of NY
2

A lender naming Bronx County on its website is a good sign, not an offer. Lenders based elsewhere may lend here too. Search your exact ZIP code in the finder to include lenders based nearby. Towns in this county: Bronx.

Lenders compared for Bronx County

14 with local records
LenderLocal recordsLoan sizesHead office
1. Ponce Bank
Bank or thrift, Bronx NY
headquarters here; 5 offices here; 6 home loans here, 2025up to $3M1 mi
2. Spring Bank
Bank or thrift, Bronx NY
headquarters here; 1 office here; 4 SBA loans here, FY2020–FY2026ask2 mi
3. Ponce Financial Group
Bank holding company, Bronx NY
headquarters here; 5 offices hereask1 mi
4. New Covenant Dominion Federal Credit Union
Credit union, Bronx NY
headquarters here; 1 office hereask2 mi
5. CheckSpring Community Corporation
Bank holding company, Bronx NY
headquarters here; 1 office hereask2 mi
6. LOWER EAST SIDE PEOPLES FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
Credit union, New York NY
website names Bronx County; 1 office hereask10 mi
7. Champions Funding, LLC
Loan fund, Gilbert AZ
47 home loans here, 2025up to $3M2,133 mi
8. Neighborhood Trust Federal Credit Union
Credit union, New York NY
7 SBA loans here, FY2020–FY2026$550–$200,0003 mi
9. Community Capital New York, Inc
Loan fund, Elmsford NY
6 SBA loans here, FY2020–FY2026ask15 mi
10. New York University FCU
Credit union, New York NY
3 home loans here, 2025$500–$20,00010 mi
11. Harlem Entrepreneurial Fund, LLC
Loan fund, New York NY
website names Bronx County$2,500–$350,0005 mi
12. UPPER MANHATTAN EMPOWERMENT ZONE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Loan fund, New York NY
website names Bronx Countyask5 mi
13. Homeownership Lending LLC
Loan fund, New York NY
website names Bronx Countyfrom $10,00012 mi
14. Union County Economic Development Corporation
Loan fund, Cranford NJ
website names Bronx County$500–$5.5M26 mi

13 of these 14 lenders have received CDFI Fund awards, together $71.6M in fiscal years 1998–2024 (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

14 lenders

14 head offices and 30 branches or offices of 14 lenders on this page, within 30 miles of the centre of Bronx County. Lenders with no office nearby may still lend here; many work by phone and online.

Loan types confirmed on these lenders' websites

  • Small-business loans (5 lenders)
  • Microloans (4 lenders)
  • Commercial real estate loans (4 lenders)
  • Home mortgages (3 lenders)
  • SBA-backed loans (7(a)/504/Community Advantage) (3 lenders)
  • Personal / consumer loans (2 lenders)
  • Auto / vehicle loans (1 lender)
  • Equipment loans (1 lender)

Banks and credit unions with a branch in this county

6 certified CDFIs have at least one office in Bronx County (FDIC office data as of 30 Oct 2026 and 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 56 originated home loans for properties in Bronx County in 2025 under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act: 1.4% of the 3,990 home loans that all HMDA lenders reported here.

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 Bronx County

Official statistics

Median household income in Bronx County is $48,676, 43% below the New York figure of $85,974 (ACS 2020–2024).

Businesses here took 28.8 SBA-backed loans per 1,000 employer businesses over FY2020–FY2026: fewer than the median New York county (40.2), rank 53 of 62.

MeasureBronx CountyNew York
Businesses with paid employees (CBP 2023)18,674
(3.4% of the state)
541,313
…of which under 20 employees90%88%
Businesses without employees (Nonemployer Statistics 2023)136,1511,985,320
Median household income (ACS 2020–2024)$48,676
(43% below the state)
$85,974
SBA 7(a) and 504 approvals, all lenders, FY2020–FY2026537
(507 7(a), 30 504)
22,848
…per 1,000 businesses with employees28.8
(rank 53 of 62 New York counties)
40.2
(median county)
Median SBA 7(a) loan, all lenders$100,000$130,000
…with a certified CDFI as lender, CDC or third-party lender22
(4%)
296
(1%)
Variable-rate 7(a): median rate over prime at approval, FY2024–263 pts
(246 loans; 17% at the SBA maximum)
3 pts
(15% at the maximum)

Approvals by fiscal year: FY2020 44 · FY2021 53 · FY2022 60 · FY2023 96 · FY2024 100 · FY2025 117 · FY2026 67.

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 22 SBA approvals (20 7(a) loans and 2 504 projects) for borrowers in Bronx County in fiscal years 2020–2026, from 7 CDFIs. The 7(a) loans total $2.2M approved.

CDFIs with 3 or more: Neighborhood Trust Federal Credit Union (7), Community Capital New York, Inc (6), Spring Bank (4). 4 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

16,892 loans and investments totaling $293.3M (median $5,250) were reported to the CDFI Fund for borrowers and projects in Bronx County in fiscal year 2022, by 33 reporting CDFIs. More than half of these records come from a single reporting CDFI.

Purpose (CDFI Fund category)CountTotalMedian
Non-real estate microenterprise15,648$86.4M$5,000
None of the listed purposes960$24.5M$15,995
Home purchase130$58.2M$381,250
Non-real estate business90$8.5M$23,000
Home improvement24$1.9M$48,299
Real estate: commercial construction, permanent or acquisition14$35M$2.7M
Other purposes26$78.8M

Of 1,001 individual borrowers whose income was reported, 89% had family income at or below 80% of the area median.

CDFI banks and credit unions also reported 3,798 consumer loans in Bronx County totaling $14.1M (Consumer Loan Report, tract totals, so no median); they counted 14% of them as serving low-income borrowers.

Loans and investments reported in other years: FY2018 12,412 · FY2019 13,685 · FY2020 10,226 · FY2021 16,682.

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.

Lenders whose website names Bronx County or a town in it

Headquartered in Bronx County

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

Say they serve all of New York

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.

City pages in Bronx County

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