CDFI lenders in Ohio

• 6 · Name a county or town in OHLender websites, read 29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026
• 1 · Lend statewideLender websites, read 29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026
• 3 · Name Ohio or part of itLender websites, read 29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026
• 21 · Headquartered here, no area statedCDFI Fund list, 21 Oct 2026
• 40 · Say they lend nationwideLender websites, read 29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026

Each lender is listed once, under the strongest evidence we have. 31 certified CDFIs are headquartered in Ohio (CDFI Fund list, 21 Oct 2026); 10 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.

14 certified loan funds headquartered in Ohio are matched to a Form 990 or 990-EZ; median total assets $34.6M. 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 604 SBA approvals (544 7(a) loans and 60 504 projects) for borrowers in Ohio in fiscal years 2020–2026, from 16 CDFIs. The 7(a) loans total $177.4M approved.

Most SBA approvals here: Telhio Credit Union, Inc. (379), Valley Economic Development Partners, Inc. (91), Economic and Community Development Institute, Inc. (ECDI) (89), West Central Development Corporation, dba Anchor Financial Services (16), Mission Valley Bank (7).

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.

4,406 loans and investments totaling $724.1M (median $60,000) were reported to the CDFI Fund for borrowers and projects in Ohio in fiscal year 2022, by 85 reporting CDFIs.

Of 3,043 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 54,339 consumer loans in Ohio totaling $660.8M (Consumer Loan Report, tract totals, so no median); they counted 56% of them as serving low-income borrowers.

Counties with the most recorded loans and investments

Fiscal year 2022; 45 Ohio 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 522 · FY2019 1,284 · FY2020 2,273 · FY2021 24,940.

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.

31 certified CDFIs: 17 loan funds · 12 credit unions · 1 bank or thrift · 1 bank holding company. A headquarters address is not a service area; each lender is also listed in its group above.

• Akron (3): Apex Fund for Economic Opportunities, Buckeye State Credit Union, INC., Western Reserve Community Fund, Inc · city page
• Barberton (1): New Horizon Federal Credit Union
• Caldwell (1): Community Savings
• Canton (1): Canton School Employees Federal Credit Union
• Cincinnati (2): Cincinnati Development Fund, Inc., Greater Cincinnati Microenterprise Initiative, Inc.
• Cleveland (5): AMISTAD REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, CHN Housing Capital, Cleveland Development Advisors Community Reinvestment Fund, Inc., Faith Community United Credit Union, Village Capital Corporation · city page
• Columbus (6): Economic and Community Development Institute, Inc. (ECDI), FREEDOM EQUITY INC., Finance Fund Capital Corporation, Ohio Capital Finance Corporation, Telhio Credit Union, Inc., The Affordable Housing Trust for Columbus and Franklin County · city page
• Dayton (1): DAYTON REGION NEW MARKET FUND LLC
• Kettering (1): Day Air Credit Union
• Logan (1): Appalachian Growth Capital, LLC
• Martins Ferry (1): Softite Community Federal Credit Union
• Mentor (1): Cardinal Credit Union
• North Olmsted (1): DOUBLE BOTTOMLINE CORP
• Oak Harbor (1): Commodore Perry Federal Credit Union
• Perrysburg (1): West Central Development Corporation, dba Anchor Financial Services
• Piketon (1): Atomic Credit Union
• Portsmouth (1): Desco Federal Credit Union
• Toledo (1): Nueva Esperanza Community Credit Union
• Youngstown (1): Valley Economic Development Partners, Inc.