The Richmond Fed leads the biennial Federal Reserve CDFI Survey, a collaboration of the 12 Reserve Banks of the Federal Reserve System.
Federal Reserve CDFI Survey
National data on mission-driven lenders
The Federal Reserve CDFI Survey, a national data collection effort, captures information on community development financial institutions (CDFIs). CDFIs are mission-driven banks, credit unions, loan funds, and venture capital funds that expand financial access to historically underserved individuals, small businesses, and communities.
As the nation’s central bank, the Federal Reserve has a public service mission to promote a healthy economy and financial stability. The data collected through the survey aids the Federal Reserve Banks in their work to understand economic conditions to inform research and policymaking and to advance access to credit and economic opportunity in communities across the nation.
The Federal Reserve CDFI Survey is conducted every two years and provides insight into how mission-driven lenders are faring and evolving. It provides quantitative and qualitative measures of how CDFIs serve their customers and communities, and how they meet their organizational needs.
The 2025 CDFI Survey will include questions about:
- Recent changes in demand for CDFIs’ products and services
- Top challenges CDFIs face
- Public funding programs that are important to respondent CDFIs
- CDFIs’ use of secondary markets
The survey is best completed by a CDFI executive decision-maker. One response per CDFI, please.
Visit the About the Survey page for more information on the survey and bookmark the Community Development Finance Insights page for regular updates and insights from the survey team.
Questions? Contact us at cdfi.survey@rich.frb.org.
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March 13, 2025
As we gear up for the 2025 Federal Reserve CDFI Survey, this post paints a picture of the current state of CDFIs and seeks to understand what might differ from our 2023 survey results.