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CDFI lenders in Cameron County, TX

3 are headquartered here. 4 more have a bank or credit-union branch here. 4 more say they serve all of Texas. Sources: lender websites (29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026), the CDFI Fund list (21 Oct 2026) and FDIC/NCUA branch records.

Name this county: 0
Based here: 3
Branch here: 4
Serve all of TX: 4

None of the lender websites we read names Cameron County; the lenders below are based here, have an office here or serve the whole state. Lenders based elsewhere may lend here too. Search your exact ZIP code in the finder to include lenders based nearby. Towns in this county: Brownsville, Combes, Harlingen, La Feria, Los Fresnos, Los Indios, Lozano, Olmito, Port Isabel, Rio Hondo, San Benito, Santa Maria….

Lenders compared for Cameron County

9 with local records

Lender	Local records	Loan sizes	Head office
1. First Community Bank Bank or thrift, San Benito TX	headquarters here; 7 offices here; 3 SBA loans here, FY2020–FY2026; 27 home loans here, 2025	ask	3 mi
2. Lone Star National Bank Bank or thrift, McAllen TX	6 offices here; 3 SBA loans here, FY2020–FY2026; 43 home loans here, 2025	ask	41 mi
3. Texas National Bank Bank or thrift, Edinburg TX	1 office here; 31 home loans here, 2025	ask	38 mi
4. First San Benito Bancshares Corporation Bank holding company, San Benito TX	headquarters here; 7 offices here	ask	3 mi
5. Champions Funding, LLC Loan fund, Gilbert AZ	12 home loans here, 2025	up to $3M	980 mi
6. LONE STAR NATIONAL BANCSHARES--TEXAS, INC. Bank holding company, McAllen TX	6 offices here	ask	41 mi
7. PeopleFund Loan fund, Austin TX	5 SBA loans here, FY2020–FY2026	ask	287 mi
8. TNB Bancshares, Inc. Bank holding company, Mercedes TX	1 office here	ask	20 mi
9. Rio Grande Valley Multibank Corporation Loan fund, Brownsville TX	headquarters here	ask	13 mi

7 of these 9 lenders have received CDFI Fund awards, together $37.8M 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

7 lenders

6 head offices and 65 branches or offices of 7 lenders on this page, within 40 miles of the centre of Cameron County. Lenders with no office nearby may still lend here; many work by phone and online.

Loan types confirmed on these lenders' websites

Small-dollar / emergency loans (1 lender)
Affordable housing development loans (1 lender)
Home mortgages (1 lender)
Personal / consumer loans (1 lender)

Banks and credit unions with a branch in this county

6 certified CDFIs have at least one office in Cameron 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 116 originated home loans for properties in Cameron County in 2025 under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act: 2.8% of the 4,175 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 Cameron County

Official statistics

Median household income in Cameron County is $52,601, 33% below the Texas figure of $78,476 (ACS 2020–2024).

Businesses here took 23.0 SBA-backed loans per 1,000 employer businesses over FY2020–FY2026: about as many as the median Texas county (23.4), rank 130 of 253.

Measure	Cameron County	Texas
Businesses with paid employees (CBP 2023)	6,732 (1.0% of the state)	670,877
…of which under 20 employees	84%	84%
Businesses without employees (Nonemployer Statistics 2023)	37,950	3,092,631
Median household income (ACS 2020–2024)	$52,601 (33% below the state)	$78,476
SBA 7(a) and 504 approvals, all lenders, FY2020–FY2026	155 (150 7(a), 5 504)	28,903
…per 1,000 businesses with employees	23.0 (rank 130 of 253 Texas counties)	23.4 (median county)
Median SBA 7(a) loan, all lenders	$150,000	$347,900
…with a certified CDFI as lender, CDC or third-party lender	15 (10%)	1,104 (4%)
Variable-rate 7(a): median rate over prime at approval, FY2024–26	3 pts (66 loans; 14% at the SBA maximum)	2.75 pts (11% at the maximum)

Approvals by fiscal year: FY2020 8 · FY2021 13 · FY2022 18 · FY2023 29 · FY2024 34 · FY2025 25 · FY2026 28.

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 15 SBA approvals (13 7(a) loans and 2 504 projects) for borrowers in Cameron County in fiscal years 2020–2026, from 7 CDFIs. The 7(a) loans total $4.2M approved.

CDFIs with 3 or more: PeopleFund (5), First Community Bank (3), Lone Star National Bank (3). 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

2,308 loans and investments totaling $20M (median $815) were reported to the CDFI Fund for borrowers and projects in Cameron County in fiscal year 2022, by 15 reporting CDFIs. More than half of these records come from a single reporting CDFI.

Purpose (CDFI Fund category)	Count	Total	Median
Consumer	2,230	$1.7M	$789
Home purchase	30	$5.8M	$162,178
Non-real estate microenterprise	27	$722,304	$25,625
None of the listed purposes	6	$1.5M	$177,300
Non-real estate business	6	$524,464	$91,300
Home improvement	5	$24,635	$2,500
Other purposes	4	$9.6M

Of 15 individual borrowers whose income was reported, 73% had family income at or below 80% of the area median.

CDFI banks and credit unions also reported 565 consumer loans in Cameron County totaling $3.9M (Consumer Loan Report, tract totals, so no median); they counted 11% of them as serving low-income borrowers.

Loans and investments reported in other years: FY2018 70 · FY2019 37 · FY2020 222 · FY2021 757.

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 Cameron County

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

Say they serve all of Texas

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

cdcb-come dream.come build.HUD-approved housing counselor · 901 E Levee St, Brownsville, TX 78520956-541-4955

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.