CDFI Certified Institutions List

Downloads and normalizes the U.S. Treasury CDFI Fund's official list of currently Certified Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) into a clean, filterable dataset — straight from the CDFI Fund's own published workbook, no HTML-table scraping, no selector-drift risk.

What it does

• Fetches the CDFI Fund's certification page and discovers the current "List of Currently Certified CDFIs" download link (falls back to the last-known link if the page structure changes)
• Downloads and parses the .xlsx workbook (~1,272 certified institutions)
• Normalizes column headers, converts the Excel serial certification date to ISO-8601
• Applies optional state, Native-CDFI, and institution-type filters
• Charges/stops per Apify's pay-per-event budget, same as every other dataset-item Actor in this account

Use cases

1. CRA (Community Reinvestment Act) and community-finance teams checking a counterparty's CDFI certification status
2. Grantmakers, impact investors, and philanthropic researchers building a target list of eligible CDFI recipients
3. Vendor/lender-screening teams verifying CDFI certification before entering a partnership or referral relationship

Input

• maxItems: maximum number of rows to return (default 100, up to 5,000 — the full file has ~1,272 rows)
• stateFilter: optional array of 2-letter state codes
• nativeCdfiOnly: optional boolean — only return organizations flagged as Native CDFI
• institutionTypeContains: optional substring filter on Financial Institution Type (e.g. "Credit Union", "Loan Fund", "Bank")

Output fields

Field	Type	Description
organizationName	string	Certified CDFI organization name
certControlNumber	string	CDFI Fund certification control number
dateCertified	string	ISO-8601 date the organization was certified
financialInstitutionType	string	e.g. Credit Union, Loan Fund, Bank, Venture Capital Fund
rssdId	string	Federal Reserve RSSD ID (blank for non-depository institutions)
nativeCdfi	string	"Y"/"N" — Native CDFI flag
city	string	Organization city
state	string	Organization state
zipcode	string	Organization ZIP code
address	string	Organization street address
website	string	Organization website (raw source value)
sourceFileDate	string	The "as of" date printed in the source workbook
sourceUrl	string	The exact download URL this run fetched
retrievedTimestamp	string	ISO-8601 timestamp this row was fetched

Example output

{
  "organizationName": "1ST Bergen Federal Credit Union",
  "certControlNumber": "151CE013863",
  "dateCertified": "2015-04-06",
  "financialInstitutionType": "Credit Union",
  "rssdId": "3945737",
  "nativeCdfi": "N",
  "city": "HACKENSACK",
  "state": "NJ",
  "zipcode": "07601--580",
  "address": "392 Main Street",
  "website": "http://www.1stbergen.com",
  "sourceFileDate": "July 16, 2026",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.cdfifund.gov/media/8018641/download?inline",
  "retrievedTimestamp": "2026-08-13T08:17:08.466660+00:00"
}

Pricing

$3 per 1,000 results.

Results	Cost
100	$0.30
500	$1.50
1,000	$3.00
5,000 (full file, ~4x over)	$3.00 (capped — full file is ~1,272 rows)

Notes

The full dataset is currently ~1,272 certified institutions — a full-file run costs under $4. The source file is updated periodically by the CDFI Fund as certification reviews complete; each run fetches the current file live rather than a cached snapshot.