Terms of use

CDFI Atlas is free to read and free to link to. It took a lot of work to compile, so please do not copy it wholesale.

What you are welcome to do

• Read, search and link to any page.
• Quote short passages or individual figures, with a link to the page you took them from (for example “Source: CDFI Atlas, cdfiatlas.com/…”).
• Use the figures in our State of CDFI lending report in articles, research and teaching, with that attribution. The underlying tables are available on request through the journalist page; they are not offered as downloads.
• Index the site with a search engine or AI crawler that identifies itself and follows our robots.txt.

What these terms do not allow

• Copying or republishing a substantial part of the site, its pages or its compiled data (lender records, verified loan details, service areas, county and state tables), whether by hand or by script.
• Mirroring the site or using it to build another directory or database.
• Automated collection other than by identified search and AI crawlers, or at a rate that burdens the server.
• Removing or hiding the source and attribution from material you quote.

What is not ours

The official list of certified CDFIs and the federal data we use (CDFI Fund, SBA, FFIEC/CFPB HMDA, IRS, FDIC, NCUA) are public. If you need them, get them from the sources named on each page and on the About page; these terms do not restrict that. Quotes from lender websites belong to the lenders. These terms cover what CDFI Atlas adds: our text, our checking and review work, and the way the data is selected, matched and arranged.

Bulk or commercial use

If you want to use more than these terms allow, use the contact page or email contact@cdfiatlas.com and describe what you need.

Last updated 4 Nov 2026.