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CDFI lenders in Queens County, NY

7 certified CDFIs name Queens County or a town in it as part of their service area on their own website. 3 more have a bank or credit-union branch 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) and FDIC/NCUA branch records.

Name this county
7
Based here
0
Branch here
3
Serve all of NY
2

A lender naming Queens 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: Arverne, Astoria, Bayside, Bellerose, Breezy Point, Cambria Heights, College Point, Corona, East Elmhurst, Elmhurst, Far Rockaway, Floral Park….

Lenders compared for Queens County

14 with local records
LenderLocal recordsLoan sizesHead office
1. Urban Upbound Federal Credit Union
Credit union, Long Island City NY
website names Queens County; headquarters here; 2 offices hereask6 mi
2. Ponce Bank
Bank or thrift, Bronx NY
3 offices here; 22 home loans here, 2025up to $3M9 mi
3. Greater Jamaica Local Development Company, Inc.
Loan fund, Jamaica NY
website names Queens County; headquarters hereup to $300,0002 mi
4. Champions Funding, LLC
Loan fund, Gilbert AZ
84 home loans here, 2025up to $3M2,135 mi
5. Brooklyn Cooperative Federal Credit Union
Credit union, Brooklyn NY
7 SBA loans here, FY2020–FY2026$500–$100,0005 mi
6. New York University FCU
Credit union, New York NY
7 home loans here, 2025$500–$20,0008 mi
7. Spring Bank
Bank or thrift, Bronx NY
5 SBA loans here, FY2020–FY2026ask10 mi
8. Ponce Financial Group
Bank holding company, Bronx NY
3 offices hereask9 mi
9. Carver Federal Savings Bank
Bank or thrift, New York NY
1 office hereask8 mi
10. LOWER EAST SIDE PEOPLES FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
Credit union, New York NY
website names Queens Countyask8 mi
11. Homeownership Lending LLC
Loan fund, New York NY
website names Queens Countyfrom $10,0009 mi
12. Harlem Entrepreneurial Fund, LLC
Loan fund, New York NY
website names Queens County$2,500–$350,00010 mi
13. UPPER MANHATTAN EMPOWERMENT ZONE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Loan fund, New York NY
website names Queens Countyask10 mi
14. Union County Economic Development Corporation
Loan fund, Cranford NJ
website names Queens County$500–$5.5M25 mi

13 of these 14 lenders have received CDFI Fund awards, together $70.8M 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 38 branches or offices of 14 lenders on this page, within 30 miles of the centre of Queens 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 (6 lenders)
  • Microloans (3 lenders)
  • Commercial real estate loans (3 lenders)
  • Home mortgages (2 lenders)
  • Personal / consumer loans (2 lenders)
  • SBA-backed loans (7(a)/504/Community Advantage) (2 lenders)
  • Auto / vehicle loans (1 lender)
  • Equipment loans (1 lender)

Banks and credit unions with a branch in this county

4 certified CDFIs have at least one office in Queens 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 115 originated home loans for properties in Queens County in 2025 under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act: 0.8% of the 13,999 home loans that all HMDA lenders reported here.

Plus 2 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.

Small business and SBA lending in Queens County

Official statistics

Median household income in Queens County is $86,136, about level with the New York figure of $85,974 (ACS 2020–2024).

Businesses here took 35.0 SBA-backed loans per 1,000 employer businesses over FY2020–FY2026: fewer than the median New York county (40.2), rank 42 of 62.

MeasureQueens CountyNew York
Businesses with paid employees (CBP 2023)51,188
(9.5% of the state)
541,313
…of which under 20 employees92%88%
Businesses without employees (Nonemployer Statistics 2023)286,7171,985,320
Median household income (ACS 2020–2024)$86,136
(about the state level)
$85,974
SBA 7(a) and 504 approvals, all lenders, FY2020–FY20261,792
(1,698 7(a), 94 504)
22,848
…per 1,000 businesses with employees35.0
(rank 42 of 62 New York counties)
40.2
(median county)
Median SBA 7(a) loan, all lenders$120,000$130,000
…with a certified CDFI as lender, CDC or third-party lender20
(1%)
296
(1%)
Variable-rate 7(a): median rate over prime at approval, FY2024–263 pts
(826 loans; 14% at the SBA maximum)
3 pts
(15% at the maximum)

Approvals by fiscal year: FY2020 138 · FY2021 170 · FY2022 199 · FY2023 346 · FY2024 381 · FY2025 352 · FY2026 206.

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 20 SBA approvals (16 7(a) loans and 4 504 projects) for borrowers in Queens County in fiscal years 2020–2026, from 7 CDFIs. The 7(a) loans total $17.6M approved.

CDFIs with 3 or more: Brooklyn Cooperative Federal Credit Union (7), Spring Bank (5). 5 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

23,896 loans and investments totaling $753M (median $5,750) were reported to the CDFI Fund for borrowers and projects in Queens County in fiscal year 2022, by 35 reporting CDFIs. More than half of these records come from a single reporting CDFI.

Purpose (CDFI Fund category)CountTotalMedian
Non-real estate microenterprise20,896$119.1M$5,000
None of the listed purposes2,070$50.6M$19,440
Home purchase715$333.5M$410,000
Non-real estate business106$15.8M$99,716
Home improvement33$1.5M$49,121
Real estate: multifamily housing construction25$67.7M$1.8M
Other purposes51$164.8M

Of 2,350 individual borrowers whose income was reported, 77% had family income at or below 80% of the area median.

CDFI banks and credit unions also reported 3,442 consumer loans in Queens County totaling $27.6M (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 16,948 · FY2019 18,245 · FY2020 12,243 · FY2021 21,352.

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 Queens County or a town in it

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.

Other New York counties

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