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CDFI lenders in Wisconsin

66 certified CDFIs lend in Wisconsin, going by their own websites, the CDFI Fund list and FDIC/NCUA branch records; 20 are headquartered here. Grouped below by the evidence. Sources: CDFI Fund list as of 21 Oct 2026; lender websites read 29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026.

Lend here
66
Headquartered here
20
Verified from lender sites
60

Who lends in Wisconsin

66 lenders, each counted once

Each lender is listed once, under the strongest evidence we have. 20 certified CDFIs are headquartered in Wisconsin (CDFI Fund list, 21 Oct 2026); 13 of them appear in the first groups because their website names an area here.

By loan type

Lenders that name an area in Wisconsin or are headquartered here and describe the loan type on their own website (Lender websites, read 29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026). Not mentioned does not mean not offered.

County pages

Cities with a CDFI headquarters

A listing here is evidence, not an offer: confirm with the lender that it lends where you are and to borrowers like you. For your exact address, search your ZIP code in the finder.

Name a county or town in Wisconsin as their lending area (6)

Their own website names a county or town in Wisconsin where they lend; place names are matched to GeoNames postal data. Source: Lender websites, read 29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026.

Lend throughout Wisconsin (5)

Their website's service area covers all of Wisconsin (statewide wording, or a list of whole states). Source: Lender websites, read 29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026.

Name Wisconsin or a region of it in their service area (7)

Their website names Wisconsin or a region of it, without saying statewide or naming a county or town. Check the exact area with the lender. Source: Lender websites, read 29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026.

Headquartered in Wisconsin, no service area stated here (7)

The CDFI Fund list (as of 21 Oct 2026) gives a headquarters address in Wisconsin. The pages we read name no county, town, region or statewide area in Wisconsin, or we have not read the lender's website yet; where a lender states an area elsewhere or nationwide, it is shown on its row. Not found does not mean they do not lend here.

Based elsewhere, with a branch or office in Wisconsin (1)

Banks and credit unions headquartered in another state with at least one office in Wisconsin (FDIC office data as of 30 Oct 2026, NCUA branch data as of 30 Jun 2026). A branch shows presence, not a stated service area; credit unions also require membership.

Say they lend nationwide (40)

Their website says they lend across the United States and does not exclude Wisconsin. Source: Lender websites, read 29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026.

Show the 40 lenders that say they lend nationwide

More loan types in Wisconsin

Lender websites, read 29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026

Loan types with too few lenders here for a page of their own. Each row quotes the lender's website.

SBA Loans (6)

Commercial Real Estate Loans (7)

Equipment Loans (2)

Mortgages (7)

Home Repair Loans (1)

Personal Loans (4)

Auto Loans (5)

Credit-Builder Loans (1)

Small-Dollar Emergency Loans (2)

Farm and Agriculture Loans (1)

Affordable Housing Development Loans (1)

Nonprofit Facility Loans (2)

CDFI Fund awards

18 of the 20 certified CDFIs headquartered in Wisconsin have received CDFI Fund awards, $121 million in total; the largest: Impact Seven, Incorporated ($20.3 million), Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation ($13 million), Forward Community Investments, Inc. ($12.9 million). All CDFI Fund award recipients based in Wisconsin, certified today or not: $208.1 million in 250 awards, 1996–2025.

Awards go to the institutions, not to borrowers; totals exclude New Markets Tax Credit allocations and bond guarantees. All states ranked. Source: CDFI Fund Searchable Awards Database, all 12,628 award records (1996–2025), read 3 Nov 2026. Years are the award round as the database lists it.

Free help in Wisconsin

Free or low-cost advice before you apply: 13 Small Business Development Center offices; 5 SCORE chapters; 7 Women's Business Centers; 1 Veterans Business Outreach Center; 26 HUD-approved housing counseling agencies. Each county page lists the ones nearest to it. Sources: SBA local assistance listings (6 Nov 2026) and HUD's list of approved housing counseling agencies (last updated 9 Apr 2025).

Largest nonprofit loan funds based in Wisconsin

IRS Form 990 data
Loan fundTotal assetsLoans receivableFY ends
Milwaukee Economic Development Corporation$133M$93.9MDec 2023
Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation$45.8M$22MDec 2023
Forward Community Investments, Inc.$33.1M—Dec 2023
Habitat for Humanity International, Inc. d/b/a Habitat for Humanity of Dane County$20.1M—Jun 2023
Northwest Side Community Development Corporation$19M$11.4MDec 2023
Legacy Redevelopment Corporation$14M$9.5MDec 2023
First American Capital Corporation, Inc.$10.6M$4.4MDec 2023
ACTS LENDING INC$9.1M$7.1MDec 2023

12 certified loan funds headquartered in Wisconsin are matched to a Form 990 or 990-EZ; median total assets $12.3M. 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.

SBA loans by CDFIs in Wisconsin

SBA data as of 30 Sep 2026

Certified CDFIs were the lender, the CDC or the third-party lender on 242 SBA approvals (230 7(a) loans and 12 504 projects) for borrowers in Wisconsin in fiscal years 2020–2026, from 12 CDFIs. The 7(a) loans total $39.3M approved.

Most SBA approvals here: Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation (174), Northeast Entrepreneur Fund, Inc. (23), Milwaukee Economic Development Corporation (20), CoVantage Credit Union (8), First American Capital Corporation, Inc. (4).

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.

CDFI lending recorded in Wisconsin (FY2022)

CDFI Fund data, released Dec 2024

7,365 loans and investments totaling $1.1B (median $80,800) were reported to the CDFI Fund for borrowers and projects in Wisconsin in fiscal year 2022, by 56 reporting CDFIs. More than half of these records come from a single reporting CDFI.

Purpose (CDFI Fund category)CountTotalMedian
Home improvement3,000$264M$53,935
Home purchase2,310$384M$145,500
Non-real estate business774$256.7M$92,772
Non-real estate microenterprise643$13.1M$16,010
None of the listed purposes281$42.6M$90,000
Real estate: commercial construction, permanent or acquisition148$61.9M$194,068
Other purposes209$43.3M

Of 5,492 individual borrowers whose income was reported, 43% had family income at or below 80% of the area median.

CDFI banks and credit unions also reported 72,706 consumer loans in Wisconsin totaling $795.1M (Consumer Loan Report, tract totals, so no median); they counted 55% of them as serving low-income borrowers.

Counties with the most recorded loans and investments

Fiscal year 2022; 51 Wisconsin counties have at least three. Records whose tract is not in a county we can match are counted in the state total only.

CountyCountTotal
Marathon County1,149$132.9M
Shawano County672$62.3M
Langlade County525$49.8M
Brown County346$85.5M
Portage County302$56.1M
Rock County300$23.3M
Milwaukee County298$60.7M
Eau Claire County261$56.6M
Dane County210$76.5M
Outagamie County209$41.3M

Loans and investments reported in other years: FY2018 4,275 · FY2019 5,066 · FY2020 9,301 · FY2021 13,501.

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 Wisconsin, by city

CDFI Fund list, 21 Oct 2026

20 certified CDFIs: 14 loan funds · 4 credit unions · 1 bank or thrift · 1 bank holding company; 6 flagged Native. A headquarters address is not a service area; each lender is also listed in its group above.

CDFI Atlas is not a lender and does not give financial advice. Inclusion is not an endorsement, and lenders have not reviewed or approved these pages. Disclaimer.

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