# CDFI Certified Institutions List (`tehsnarf/cdfi-certified-institutions-list`) Actor

Download and normalize the U.S. Treasury CDFI Fund's official list of currently Certified Community Development Financial Institutions.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/tehsnarf/cdfi-certified-institutions-list.md
- **Developed by:** [Chris Hoover](https://apify.com/tehsnarf) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

Pay per usage

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# README

## 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

```json
{
  "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.

# Actor input Schema

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of rows to return (the full file has ~1,272 rows)

## `stateFilter` (type: `array`):

Optional 2-letter US state codes to filter on

## `nativeCdfiOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Return only organizations flagged as Native CDFI

## `institutionTypeContains` (type: `string`):

Optional substring filter on Financial Institution Type (e.g. Credit Union, Loan Fund, Bank)

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxItems": 100,
  "stateFilter": [],
  "nativeCdfiOnly": false,
  "institutionTypeContains": ""
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("tehsnarf/cdfi-certified-institutions-list").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("tehsnarf/cdfi-certified-institutions-list").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call tehsnarf/cdfi-certified-institutions-list --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,tehsnarf/cdfi-certified-institutions-list"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/nY0EpbGGeH0rBotfS/builds/KycT1gOyqXDIR2jFi/openapi.json