CDFI Advocacy Map

The CDFI Advocacy Map is a free tool that helps CDFIs and CDFI allies tell their impact stories to policymakers by mapping CDFI lending across the U.S. It organizes data by U.S. Congressional Districts, State-level legislative districts, and States to focus legislators on the places they care about most.

What makes the CDFI Advocacy Map different is how it can help every CDFI tell its story using dynamic, local data—including a comparison of a District or State’s CDFI lending per capita to the national average, and hyperlocal data by census tracts with total CDFI lending, Qualified Investment Areas, and CDFI Opportunity Markets (places with high need and low historical CDFI activity).

CDFIs can order an enhanced version of the map incorporating their transaction-level reporting (TLR) data.

    1. At the national level, you can see, by color coding, each state’s percentage of the national CDFI lending per capita average, from extremely low (<=30% or $214 per capita) to high (> 120%). Open the legend to see which color corresponds to each percentage bracket.

    2. Click on a Congressional District to view detailed information in a pop-up window, including:

      • The representative’s name and contact links.

      • The percentage of CDFI Fund Qualified Investment Area (IA) tracts in the district.

      • The Total CDFI lending from 2005-2023.

      • The CDFI lending per capita and the exact percentage compared to the national average.

      • If the district is a “CDFI Opportunity Market” (area with more than 50% IA tracts and less than 80% of national average of CDFI lending per capita).

    3. Zoom in to the local level (town, city, or metro area) to see the total CDFI lending from 2005-2023 for each census tract, represented by the size of the circles.

    4. Click on a census tract to view its detailed data in a pop-up window.

    5. Open the Layers panel to turn on the “CDFI Lending - States” layer (click the eye icon) to see how each state compares to the national average of CDFI lending. *We recommend turning off any Congressional District and Census Tract layers to more easily select states. Click on a state to see its detailed data in a pop-up window.

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