CDFIs finance community businesses, including small businesses, microenterprises, nonprofit organizations, commercial real estate, and affordable housing.
To find an OFN Member CDFI in your state, use the search criteria below. You can also visit our Member Profile Directory to learn about their important work.
Century Housing is a nonprofit corporation working as a financial intermediary for affordable housing and infill developers throughout California to provide quality, affordable and attractive housing. Century has developed or financed more than 21,000 affordable homes.
CSDC is a 501(c)(3) and CDFI established to promote competition, choice and innovation in education by financing and building great public charter schools. With offices in Maryland and Colorado, CSDC provides comprehensive and affordable financial and real estate development services to charter schools nationally. CSDC offers high performing charter schools credit enhancements to secure loans and leases through the Building Block Fund, build-to-suit facilities either for lease with option-to-purchase or on an outsourced basis as a fee developer through the Turnkey Development Program, and innovative loan products through CSDC Direct. For charter schools located in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah or Wyoming, CSDC offers financing through its Mountain West Charter Schools Fund.
Chi Ishobak, Inc. is a Certified Native Community Development Financial Institution. Established in 2009 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation in Michigan, Chi Ishobak serves the citizens of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, a federally-recognized Indian tribe located in Michigan and Indiana.
It is the mission of Chi Ishobak to provide economically-disadvantaged tribal citizens with access to affordable capital for the purposes of business loans and individual financial development through collaborative and education-oriented lending services, while practicing responsible lending in order to protect loan capital for future generations of tribal citizens.
Chi Ishobak’s financial products consist of a Commercial and a Consumer Loan Program. The Commercial Loan Program provides capital to tribal entrepreneurs for small-business start-up and expansion. The Consumer Loan Program provides capital to tribal citizens to purchase automobiles and to build/repair credit. Chi Ishobak’s developmental services consist of the Financial Wellness Program, Small-Business Development assistance, and an Individual Development Program.
Chicago Community Loan Fund (CCLF) provides low-cost, flexible financing to non- and for-profit community development organizations for the revitalization of low- and moderate-income neighborhoods throughout metropolitan Chicago, and has been so engaged since 1991. CCLF accomplishes its mission by supporting, through finance and technical assistance, the work of community development organizations engaged in affordable and supportive housing production and preservation, economic development, and social service initiatives in low-wealth neighborhoods throughout Chicagoland.
Cincinnati Development Fund (CDF) is a driving force behind neighborhood revitalization in Greater Cincinnati’s urban core. By providing pioneer developers with technical assistance and access to capital, CDF supports high-impact projects from concept to completion. Through strong partnerships with financial institutions, community and government leaders and developers, CDF nimbly and creatively brings resources together to ensure vital neighborhood projects succeed.
Beyond the hardscape of commercial, mixed-use and residential real estate developments, CDF nurtures the vibrancy of inner-city neighborhoods with its creative place-making and healthy foods (HFFI) lending. Through a partnership with IFF, CDF also offers facilities and equipment financing for
local nonprofit organizations, enabling them to maintain/build facilities critical to their missions.
Cinnaire (Formerly Great Lakes Capital Fund) is a full service nonprofit community development finance institution that has been in operation for 21 years and manages over $3 billion of investments, including 652 affordable housing developments with 39,000 apartments serving 97,000 low- to moderate- income residents. In addition to its housing investments, Cinnaire manages $360 million of New Markets Tax Credits investments in high profile economic development projects. Cinnaire is an approved Fannie Mae Affordable Housing lender and through its certified CDFI subsidiaries, Capital Fund Services, Inc. (CFS) and Delaware Community Investment Corporation (DCIC), offers predevelopment, acquisition and permanent debt options for affordable housing and other real estate types supporting underserved or distressed communities.
The Citizen Potawatomi Community Development Corporation organized in May of 2003, is designed to address the lack of access to capital and financial services in Native American communities. The mission of the Citizen Potawatomi Community Development Corporation is to provide access to capital through loan fund support and business development services to Native Americans designed to expand the capacities of small businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs. The Citizen Potawatomi Community Development Corporation - Commercial Lending Program has developed non-traditional mechanisms to deliver capital on Indian lands and provide technical assistance and training. The program provides credit and helps small business owners to increase their incomes, create new jobs, and strengthen the Native American Community.
City First Enterprises is a nonprofit bank holding company and an incubator of social finance solutions located in Washington, DC, that promotes social justice by increasing economic access and expanding opportunity for low-wealth communities.
Since 1996, Clearinghouse CDFI has helped bridge the financing gap between conventional lending standards and the needs of low-income and distressed communities. Clearinghouse CDFI, which is rated ‘AA’ Stable by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, is also a B Corp—a certification received from the nonprofit B Lab. B Corps are companies who meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability, and use business as a force for good. Clearinghouse’s products and services include: nonprofit loans, commercial loans/facilities, educational facilities, faith-based lending, small business loans, and economic development/ community revitalization.
Recently, Clearinghouse CDFI expanded into Arizona through a unique transaction with Arizona MultiBank Community Development Corporation—a premiere community development loan fund with a proud history serving Arizona since 1990. Now a division of Clearinghouse CDFI, Arizona MultiBank’s increased capacity helps deliver an even wider range of loan products and significantly larger loans with longer terms throughout the state.
