SBA lending data · fiscal year 2025
25 lenders funded commercial and institutional building construction in California last year
96 SBA 7(a) loans approved under NAICS 236220. Median approval $197,200, median term 120 months, median initial rate 11%.
What was actually approved
Half of all approvals in this industry and state fell between $100,000 and $500,000. A request well outside that band is not impossible — it draws more scrutiny on collateral and management experience.
The most active lenders
Ranked by how many loans each actually approved in this industry and state — not by advertising spend. A lender that has written twenty of these already knows the questions to ask.
- 1U.S. Bank, National Association19 loans · $5.3M
- 2Northeast Bank14 loans · $4.7M
- 3JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association12 loans · $3.9M
- 4BayFirst National Bank6 loans · $0.9M
- 5Lendistry SBLC, LLC6 loans · $2.1M
- 6Celtic Bank Corporation5 loans · $0.6M
- 7Zions Bank, A Division of5 loans · $1M
- 8Readycap Lending, LLC3 loans · $1.5M
- 9The Huntington National Bank3 loans · $0.8M
- 10Southwestern National Bank3 loans · $1.9M
- 11Stearns Bank National Association2 loans · $2.6M
- 12Citibank, N.A.2 loans · $0.2M
This list is not a recommendation and these lenders have no relationship with this site. It reports approvals recorded in U.S. Small Business Administration, FOIA 7(a) and 504 loan approval data (data.sba.gov), fiscal year 2025, as of 2026-06-30.
Is this industry getting easier or harder to finance?
| Fiscal year | Loans | Lenders | Median approval |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 44 | 18 | $150,000 |
| FY2024 | 63 | 23 | $245,000 |
| FY2025 | 96 | 25 | $197,200 |
Only completed fiscal years are shown. The SBA fiscal year ends 30 September; a partial year compared against full ones makes any industry look like it is closing.
Where this comes from
The SBA publishes every approved 7(a) and 504 loan under FOIA: the lender, the borrower's state, the industry code, the amount, the term and the initial rate. We indexed 4 fiscal years of it, alongside Census and BLS data. Figures on this page are as published on 2026-06-30.
This page reports approvals. It says nothing about how many applications were declined, and it is not a prediction about yours. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or approved by the U.S. Small Business Administration.
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