Locus

Areas Served: Virginia and contiguous states
Loan Range: $50,000—7,500,000
Lending Focus: Affordable housing, small business, food access, clean energy, and health.

DreamSpring

Areas Served: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas
Loan Range: $1,000—2,000,000
Lending Focus: We provide rapid access to capital to the most vulnerable small business owners, focusing on communities including people of color, women, low- to moderate-income earners, people with disabilities, and start-ups. (with an alternate minimum loan amounts for Georgia of $3k+)

Mountain BizWorks

Areas Served: North Carolina* (Western NC only)
Loan Range: $1,000—500,000
Lending Focus: Small business startup, growth, and succession funding with a focus on low-income, BIPOC, rural, and woman-owned businesses in the 26 western-most counties of North Carolina.

Institute Capital

Areas Served: North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington D.C., West Virginia
Loan Range: $0—750,000
Lending Focus: Institute Capital provides debt and investment capital to affordable housing developers, community-based development organizations (CBDOs) and small businesses.

Business Expansion Funding Corporation (BEFCOR)

Areas Served: North Carolina, South Carolina
Loan Range: $1,000—150,000
Lending Focus: BEFCOR’s CDFI activities are focused on assisting small businesses throughout North Carolina that are historically under-served by traditional lenders, especially minority, woman, veteran, and rural owned businesses.

Partner Community Capital (PCAP)

Areas Served: North Carolina, West Virginia
Loan Range: $25,000—1,000,000
Lending Focus: PCAP lends to small businesses located in rural and/or underserved communities. PCAP also focuses lending to women & BIPOC business owners and to sustainable enterprises. In these ways, PCAP promotes economic and environmental sustainability and supports entrepreneurs' efforts to build family and community wealth.