All rankings · Q2 2026 only · April–June 2026 · FOIA as of 2026-06-30
Banks, credit unions, and nonbank lenders ranked by GrossApproval for April–June 2026.
$7.64B approved nationwide across 14,357 loans. Change the period to compare another quarter, half, year, or the entire window.
Quarterly: Q2 2026 — April 1 – June 30, 2026.
Q2 2026 approved
$958M
12.5% of U.S. Q2 2026 volume
Loans in Q2 2026
1,746
Avg $549K
Average loan
$549K
GrossApproval / loan count
Jobs supported
16,856
SBA reported, Q2 2026
April–June 2026 only.
Ranked by GrossApproval in California · April–June 2026 · Click a lender to filter this page
| # | Lender | Type | Loans | Approved | Avg loan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Newtek Bank, National Association | Fintech / nonbank | 277 | $67.8M | $245K |
| 2 | U.S. Bank, National Association | Big bank | 225 | $62.7M | $278K |
| 3 | US Metro Bank | Community bank | 25 | $50.0M | $2.0M |
| 4 | Harvest Small Business Finance, LLC | Fintech / nonbank | 41 | $48.2M | $1.2M |
| 5 | Live Oak Banking Company | Community bank | 72 | $47.6M | $661K |
| 6 | Celtic Bank Corporation | Community bank | 48 | $42.3M | $882K |
| 7 | Bank of Hope | Community bank | 47 | $38.2M | $812K |
| 8 | Northeast Bank | Community bank | 150 | $32.5M | $216K |
| 9 | Open Bank | Community bank | 17 | $28.2M | $1.7M |
| 10 | Wells Fargo Bank National Association | Big bank | 23 | $24.7M | $1.1M |
| 11 | Port 51 Lending LLC | Fintech / nonbank | 13 | $23.2M | $1.8M |
| 12 | City National Bank | Community bank | 15 | $21.2M | $1.4M |
| 13 | East West Bank | Community bank | 25 | $20.6M | $826K |
| 14 | Southwestern National Bank | Community bank | 7 | $17.4M | $2.5M |
| 15 | Zions Bank, A Division of | Community bank | 41 | $16.9M | $413K |
| 16 | The Huntington National Bank | Big bank | 35 | $16.9M | $482K |
| 17 | Fifth Third Bank | Big bank | 10 | $15.8M | $1.6M |
| 18 | First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company | Big bank | 10 | $14.4M | $1.4M |
| 19 | PCB Bank | Community bank | 12 | $13.1M | $1.1M |
| 20 | Bank of America, National Association | Big bank | 26 | $12.8M | $493K |
| 21 | Banner Bank | Community bank | 19 | $12.5M | $656K |
| 22 | Lendistry SBLC, LLC | Fintech / nonbank | 64 | $12.4M | $194K |
| 23 | Commercial Bank of California | Community bank | 14 | $12.2M | $870K |
| 24 | The Bancorp Bank National Association | Community bank | 8 | $11.2M | $1.4M |
| 25 | Pathward National Association | Community bank | 7 | $10.8M | $1.5M |
FDIC-insured banks vs NCUA credit unions vs nonbank/fintech names. Q2 2026 only.
In California. SBA franchise fields are sparse; small-volume brands are omitted.
| # | Brand | Loans | Approved |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AM/PM Mini-Mart Agreement | 3 | $12.9M |
| 2 | Smash My Trash | 3 | $3.5M |
| 3 | Paris Baguette | 3 | $3.3M |
| 4 | The UPS Store | 8 | $2.6M |
| 5 | Pirtek | 3 | $2.1M |
| 6 | KidStrong | 3 | $1.4M |
| 7 | bb.q Chicken | 3 | $1.2M |
| 8 | Woof Gang Bakery and Grooming | 4 | $938K |
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“California SBA 7(a) approvals totaled $958M in Q2 2026 — Resource SBA 7(a) Lending.”
This page includes calendar Q2 2026 only. Loan-level SBA 7(a) FOIA approvals are filtered by ApprovalDate; loans from every other quarter in the extract are ignored. Dollar volume is GrossApproval. Lender identity is grouped by FDIC certificate or NCUA charter when present, otherwise by a normalized lender name. Industry cuts use 2-digit NAICS sectors (31–33 manufacturing, 44–45 retail, and 48–49 transportation are collapsed). Geography uses ProjectState / ProjectCounty (where the funded project is located), not the lender headquarters. ZIP rankings use BorrZip (borrower mailing ZIP), which can differ from the project county. Rows without a positive GrossApproval or parseable ApprovalDate are excluded from all rollups. Missing NAICS codes are bucketed as Unclassified. This dataset contains approved loans only — it cannot support an approval-rate statistic. Individual borrower names and addresses are not published.
373,981 loans in the FOIA extract fell outside Q2 2026 and were ignored in this view.
Within Q2 2026, no rows were dropped for missing GrossApproval, lender identity, NAICS, or project state. Unclassified NAICS (if any) remain in totals and are labeled explicitly.
Source: U.S. Small Business Administration FOIA 7(a) loan-level dataset · File FOIA_7a_FY2020_Present_asof_260630.csv. Last built September 11, 2026. Resource SBA 7(a) Lending in Q2 2026.