SBA · 7(a) & 504 FOIA
SBA Loan Lookup
When a small business gets an SBA-backed loan approved, it just took on federal growth capital for equipment, real estate, working capital, or an acquisition — a dated, funded-to-grow moment. This searches those approvals by borrower.
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The signal
What a sba loan tells you
An SBA-backed loan — a 7(a) guaranty or a 504/CDC debenture — is how a small business finances growth: equipment, real estate, working capital, or an acquisition. The SBA discloses every approval under FOIA, so the roster of who just took on growth capital, and through which program, is a matter of official record.
This tool searches that roster by business name and shows the borrower, the city and state, and the program. Behind the unlock you get the gross approval amount, the funding lender or CDC, the jobs the loan supports, the approval date, and the borrower's industry (NAICS).
The event is the approval. A newly approved loan marks a company that just secured capital and is about to spend it — the funded-to-grow moment that equipment dealers, commercial real-estate and construction vendors, business insurers, and B2B sellers want to catch the week the money lands.
Why it matters
An approved SBA loan is one of the cleanest funded-to-grow triggers there is: a company that just secured capital is buying equipment, space, and services on a known timeline — reach it right after approval.
Field guide
How to read the results
Every field below is returned free, in full — no email, no gate. Build a Parse when you want the whole list for a specialty or state, exports, or a live alert the moment a prescriber goes new-to-class.
- Borrower
- The business that received the approval, as disclosed by the SBA — the operator that just took on growth capital.
- City / State
- Where the borrower is located. B2B sales, equipment, and real-estate territories are regional, so location drives who can serve it.
- Program
- 7A is a 7(a) bank guaranty (working capital, equipment, general purposes); 504 is a CDC debenture (owner-occupied real estate, heavy equipment). The program tells you what the money is for.
- Gross approval amount
- The approved loan size — the scale of the capital the borrower just took on and a read on how much it's about to spend.
- Funding lender / CDC
- The 7(a) bank or 504 Certified Development Company behind the loan — useful for lender-relationship and channel work.
- Jobs & industry
- The jobs the loan supports and the borrower's NAICS industry — how you filter approvals to a sector and gauge the business's size.
Who uses it
Common use cases
Equipment dealers & B2B sellers
A funded borrower is about to buy — reach it right after approval, filtered by industry and geography.
Commercial real estate & construction
504 loans finance owner-occupied real estate and buildout — a timed pipeline for CRE, construction, and fit-out vendors.
Banks, insurers & lenders
A new approval marks a growing business with fresh capital needs — a warm lead for treasury, insurance, and follow-on financing.
PE, M&A & market research
Profile the funded small-business universe by program, amount, and industry to source and benchmark.
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Related terms & acronyms
Plain-language definitions for the language on this record — part of the ParseData glossary.
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What is an SBA loan lookup?
It's a search of the SBA's FOIA roster of 7(a) and 504 loan approvals by business name. Every approval is disclosed, so this tool finds the borrower, its location, and the program from a name search.
What's the difference between a 7(a) and a 504 loan?
A 7(a) loan is an SBA-guaranteed bank loan for working capital, equipment, or general business purposes. A 504 loan is a CDC/debenture structure for owner-occupied real estate and major equipment. The program field tells you which — and what the money is for.
Is the SBA loan lookup free?
Yes. Search any borrower by name with no login and see the borrower, city, state, and program. The approval amount, funding lender, jobs supported, approval date, and industry are shown free — no email or login.
Does an approval mean the loan was disbursed?
The record is the SBA's approval disclosure — the dated point at which the loan was approved. It's the funded-to-grow trigger; it's reported exactly as the SBA discloses it, never a credit or standing judgment about the borrower.
How current is the loan data?
It reads the SBA 7(a) and 504 FOIA loan-approval files that ParseData refreshes on the SBA's release schedule, so recent approvals appear after the SBA posts them.
How it's sourced
Reads the SBA 7(a) and 504/CDC FOIA loan-approval roster (SBA public-domain records). Borrower, program, and approval fields only — reported exactly as disclosed, never a credit, quality, or standing judgment about any borrower.
Turn this lookup into a live feed.
The free tool gives you every field, in full, off the same SBA · 7(a) & 504 FOIA data behind ParseData. Build a Parse to monitor a whole specialty or state — and get every new-to-class prescriber the moment they hit the record.