SBA lending data · fiscal year 2025
23 lenders funded engineering services in California last year
59 SBA 7(a) loans approved under NAICS 541330. Median approval $300,000, median term 120 months, median initial rate 10.5%.
What was actually approved
Half of all approvals in this industry and state fell between $150,000 and $539,000. 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.
- 1Newtek Bank, National Association8 loans · $6.4M
- 2Columbia Bank7 loans · $2.2M
- 3Lendistry SBLC, LLC5 loans · $1.4M
- 4Celtic Bank Corporation5 loans · $0.6M
- 5Bank of America, National Association4 loans · $1.9M
- 6Live Oak Banking Company4 loans · $7.3M
- 7U.S. Bank, National Association4 loans · $1.6M
- 8Northeast Bank3 loans · $0.7M
- 9Readycap Lending, LLC2 loans · $0.9M
- 10BayFirst National Bank2 loans · $0.3M
- 11Wells Fargo Bank National Association2 loans · $2.7M
- 12Customers Bank2 loans · $0.7M
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 | 33 | 19 | $244,200 |
| FY2024 | 52 | 22 | $197,550 |
| FY2025 | 59 | 23 | $300,000 |
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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