CDFI Survey
Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) are specialized financial institutions operating in markets that are underserved by traditional financial institutions. This section highlights the Richmond Fed’s work on CDFIs.
Help us understand current challenges and opportunities for CDFIs by taking the 2023 CDFI Survey from now until June 2, 2023.
English language version of the 2023 CDFI Survey
Spanish language version of the 2023 CDFI Survey
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2023 CDFI Survey
2023 CDFI Survey
The CDFI Survey aims to understand current challenges and opportunities for CDFIs nationwide. The information we collect helps provide policymakers, researchers, practitioners, funders, investors, and other community development stakeholders with timely information about the CDFI industry. CDFIs can also use the results to compare their organization to a larger national sample and to learn about other CDFIs’ innovative products and practices. The 2023 survey asks CDFIs about demand for their products, challenges in meeting demand, new products and practices they have developed, and their approaches to measuring outputs and outcomes.
The survey is open to all types of CDFIs, including banks, credit unions, loan funds and venture capital funds. Identified responses are confidential, and only aggregated or otherwise de-identified results will be reported publicly.
This survey will open on April 24 and close June 2, 2023, at 11:59 p.m. ET.
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2021 CDFI Survey
2021 CDFI Survey
The 2021 CDFI Survey was part of the Federal Reserve’s ongoing efforts to gather data from CDFIs across the United States and U.S. territories, including Puerto Rico. The survey gathered information from 345 CDFIs on their financial well-being throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, operational gaps and challenges, and effects on their clients and the communities they serve.
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COVID-19 CDFI Survey
COVID-19 CDFI Survey
The 2020 COVID-19 CDFI Survey was a special effort to gather data from CDFIs across the United States and U.S. territories, including Puerto Rico, and to better understand the impact of COVID-19 on their organizations, clients, and communities.
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2019 CDFI Survey
2019 CDFI Survey
The 2019 CDFI Survey was a national survey of CDFIs conducted as a partnership of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks, the CDFI Fund, First Nations Oweesta Corporation, Inclusiv, NeighborWorks America and Opportunity Finance Network. The survey grew out of the Richmond Fed’s biennial Survey of CDFIs in the Southeast and was fielded from April through June 2019.
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National CDFI Directory
National CDFI Directory
The National CDFI Directory contains contact information for 319 CDFIs that responded to the Federal Reserve’s 2021 CDFI Survey. Separately, the CDFI Fund maintains a full list of Certified CDFIs.
- National CDFI Directory (Current as of May 2021)