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CDFI lenders in Philadelphia County, PA

4 certified CDFIs name Philadelphia County or a town in it as part of their service area on their own website. 8 more are headquartered here. 3 more say they serve all of Pennsylvania. Sources: lender websites (29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026), the CDFI Fund list (21 Oct 2026).

Name this county: 4
Based here: 8
Serve all of PA: 3

A lender naming Philadelphia 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: Philadelphia.

Lenders compared for Philadelphia County

15 with local records

Lender	Local records	Loan sizes	Head office
1. Asian Bank Bank or thrift, Philadelphia PA	headquarters here; 3 offices here; 15 SBA loans here, FY2020–FY2026; 41 home loans here, 2025	ask	3 mi
2. Asian Finanical Corporation Bank holding company, Philadelphia PA	headquarters here; 3 offices here	ask	3 mi
3. Women's Opportunities Resource Center Loan fund, Philadelphia PA	headquarters here; 3 SBA loans here, FY2020–FY2026	ask	3 mi
4. BEECH CAPITAL VENTURE CORPORATION Loan fund, Philadelphia PA	website names Philadelphia County; headquarters here	ask	2 mi
5. Philadelphia Accelerator Fund Loan fund, Philadelphia PA	website names Philadelphia; headquarters here	up to $2M	3 mi
6. PIDC Community Capital Loan fund, Philadelphia PA	website names Philadelphia; headquarters here	ask	3 mi
7. Economic Opportunities Fund Loan fund, Philadelphia PA	website names Philadelphia County; headquarters here	$150–$350,000	3 mi
8. Champions Funding, LLC Loan fund, Gilbert AZ	104 home loans here, 2025	up to $3M	2,065 mi
9. Change Lending, LLC Loan fund, Anaheim CA	20 home loans here, 2025	up to $3.5M	2,368 mi
10. Peoples Bank Bank or thrift, Mendenhall MS	4 home loans here, 2025	$500–$5M	989 mi
11. Impact Loan Fund, Inc. Loan fund, Philadelphia PA	headquarters here	ask	1 mi
12. Entrepreneur Works Fund Loan fund, Philadelphia PA	headquarters here	ask	3 mi
13. North Philadelphia Financial Partnership Loan fund, Philadelphia PA	headquarters here	$5,000–$400,000	3 mi
14. Reinvestment Fund, Inc., The Loan fund, Philadelphia PA	headquarters here	ask	3 mi
15. Enterprise Center Capital Corporation, The Loan fund, Philadelphia PA	headquarters here	ask	5 mi

14 of these 15 lenders have received CDFI Fund awards, together $130.6M in fiscal years 1997–2024 (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

12 lenders

12 head offices and 4 branches or offices of 12 lenders on this page, within 30 miles of the centre of Philadelphia 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)
Commercial real estate loans (6 lenders)
Credit-builder loans (2 lenders)
Equipment loans (2 lenders)
Affordable housing development loans (2 lenders)
Home mortgages (2 lenders)
SBA-backed loans (7(a)/504/Community Advantage) (2 lenders)
Microloans (1 lender)

Banks and credit unions with a branch in this county

2 certified CDFIs have at least one office in Philadelphia County (FDIC office data as of 30 Oct 2026). A branch shows presence, not a stated service area; credit unions also require membership.

CDFI mortgage lenders active here

Certified CDFIs reported 172 originated home loans for properties in Philadelphia County in 2025 under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act: 0.7% of the 24,939 home loans that all HMDA lenders reported here.

Plus 3 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 Philadelphia County

Official statistics

Median household income in Philadelphia County is $61,953, 21% below the Pennsylvania figure of $77,971 (ACS 2020–2024).

Businesses here took 45.1 SBA-backed loans per 1,000 employer businesses over FY2020–FY2026: more than the median Pennsylvania county (34.1), rank 14 of 67.

Measure	Philadelphia County	Pennsylvania
Businesses with paid employees (CBP 2023)	29,460 (9.6% of the state)	307,065
…of which under 20 employees	84%	84%
Businesses without employees (Nonemployer Statistics 2023)	127,494	955,359
Median household income (ACS 2020–2024)	$61,953 (21% below the state)	$77,971
SBA 7(a) and 504 approvals, all lenders, FY2020–FY2026	1,328 (1,280 7(a), 48 504)	12,779
…per 1,000 businesses with employees	45.1 (rank 14 of 67 Pennsylvania counties)	34.1 (median county)
Median SBA 7(a) loan, all lenders	$150,000	$150,000
…with a certified CDFI as lender, CDC or third-party lender	21 (2%)	75 (1%)
Variable-rate 7(a): median rate over prime at approval, FY2024–26	3 pts (607 loans; 11% at the SBA maximum)	2.75 pts (11% at the maximum)

Approvals by fiscal year: FY2020 82 · FY2021 134 · FY2022 196 · FY2023 232 · FY2024 255 · FY2025 244 · FY2026 185.

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 21 SBA approvals (19 7(a) loans and 2 504 projects) for borrowers in Philadelphia County in fiscal years 2020–2026, from 4 CDFIs. The 7(a) loans total $9.4M approved.

CDFIs with 3 or more: Asian Bank (15), Women's Opportunities Resource Center (3). 2 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

486 loans and investments totaling $62M (median $10,500) were reported to the CDFI Fund for borrowers and projects in Philadelphia County in fiscal year 2022, by 36 reporting CDFIs.

Purpose (CDFI Fund category)	Count	Total	Median
Non-real estate microenterprise	224	$1.7M	$2,750
Non-real estate business	97	$21.9M	$100,000
Home purchase	83	$22.1M	$168,000
Consumer	42	$122,820	$2,400
Real estate: commercial rehabilitation	13	$2.6M	$245,000
Real estate: commercial construction, permanent or acquisition	8	$2.3M	$229,000
Other purposes	19	$11.2M

Of 105 individual borrowers whose income was reported, 66% had family income at or below 80% of the area median.

CDFI banks and credit unions also reported 4,944 consumer loans in Philadelphia County totaling $12M (Consumer Loan Report, tract totals, so no median); they counted 4% of them as serving low-income borrowers.

Loans and investments reported in other years: FY2018 793 · FY2019 559 · FY2020 501 · FY2021 7,604.

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 Philadelphia County or a town in it

Headquartered in Philadelphia County

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

Say they serve all of Pennsylvania

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.