SBA 504 · CA
SBA 504 lenders in California
186 lenders provided the first lien on at least one SBA 504 project in California in the 36 months ending September 30, 2026. First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company made the most, with 431 of the 3,795 on record.
- Evidence
- Lender provided the first lien on at least one SBA 504 project in California in the 36 months ending September 30, 2026
- Data as of
- SBA, September 30, 2026
- Page last changed
- November 12, 2026
- Lenders on record
- 186
- SBA FOIA,
- First liens, 36 months
- 3,795
- SBA FOIA,
- Approvals, net of cancelled
- Dollars, 36 months
- $6.95B
- SBA FOIA,
- Approvals, last 12 months (funded or not)
- 1,300
- SBA FOIA,
- -1.9% from the prior 12 months
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Source: The Lender Report, SBA 504 lenders in California, https://lender.report/sba-504-lenders/california/, data as of September 30, 2026.
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Dollars are first-lien amounts on SBA 504 approvals.
- Lenders recorded 3,795 SBA 504 first liens totaling $6.9B in California in the 36 months ending September 30, 2026. SBA FOIA,
- Banks and savings institutions made 3,033 of those, credit unions 184, and non-banks 531. SBA FOIA,
- The five most active lenders made 38.2% of California's SBA 504 first liens. SBA FOIA,
- First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company recorded the most dollars in California, at $713.6M. SBA FOIA,
- 88 of these lenders are based in California. SBA FOIA,
- 62 lenders recorded 10 or more SBA 504 first liens in California. SBA FOIA,
- 47 of these first liens were made by lenders that have since merged or closed, or that the file lists under a name with no lender record here. They are counted in the totals here and appear in no lender's row. SBA FOIA,
- The SBA file shows 1,300 SBA 504 approvals in California dated in the 12 months to September 30, 2026, versus 1,325 in the prior 12 months. Both counts leave out cancelled approvals and include approvals not yet funded, so the two periods are measured the same way. SBA FOIA,
- The typical SBA 504 first lien in California was about $1M, with the middle half between $620K and $1.8M. SBA FOIA,
- The median term in California was 25 years. SBA FOIA,
How this list is defined
- Measure
- SBA 504 first liens in California
- Period
- October 2023 to September 2026
- Formula
- Count, by lender, of SBA 504 projects located in California with an approval date in the 36 months ending September 30, 2026, not cancelled, that name the lender as first-lien lender.
- Order
- Largest first by first liens in the 36 months, then dollars, then name. Payment is not part of the order.
- As of
- September 30, 2026
- Source
- SBA FOIA
- Changelog
- : First published, with the data built on this date.
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An SBA 504 project pairs a first-lien lender with a Certified Development Company that funds a second lien, for owner-occupied real estate and equipment.
SBA 504 figures count the first-lien lender on each SBA approval. A project marked not funded is often recent and awaiting funding.
Each lender is counted only where the public file places the loan. Lenders that merged or stopped filing are left out.
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