Impact Dashboard

The whole record, on one screen.

The lending of the Harlem Entrepreneurial Fund and the work of the HCC Small Business Solutions Center, counted and shown plainly. Start with the overview, or pick a program to see the detail behind the numbers.

Who this coversThe Harlem Entrepreneurial Fund & the HCC SBS Center
Time periodHEF since 2008, SBS Center since 2012
Last updatedSeptember 2026
Deployed by HEF since 2008
$0M

Money loaned to local business owners, paid back, and loaned out again to the next one.

0%
Of HEF loans to LMI & women ownersWe lend to owners conventional banks often turn away.
2012
Certified as a CDFI by the U.S. TreasuryHEF began lending in 2008 and was certified as a Community Development Financial Institution in 2012.
What these numbers mean

In plain terms, before the charts.

Lending counts from 2008. Unless a panel says otherwise, HEF figures are running totals since HEF made its first loans, not one year's worth.

A grant is spent once. A loan comes back. HEF is a revolving loan fund: a business repays its loan, and that money goes straight back out to the next business. So the total HEF has deployed is larger than the amount it holds at any one time. That is the fund doing its job, not double counting.

I Lending by year

How much HEF loaned in each of the last ten years. Hover or tap any year to see the amount.

Source: HEF loan servicing records
Who borrows from HEF

A breakdown of the business owners in HEF's loan portfolio.

Source: HEF loan servicing records
What industries HEF lends to

Tap any column heading to re-order the table.

Source: HEF loan servicing records
How much HEF lends per loan

Source: HEF loan servicing records
Capital facilitated by the HCC SBS Center since 2012
$0M+

Loans, grants and other funding that HCC SBS Center clients secured with the center's help.

0+
People served since 2012Everyone who came to the SBS Center for advising, training, or help finding funding.
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Unique businesses servedEach business counted once, however many times it came back.
III People served by year

Unique people served each fiscal year across our Upper Manhattan and Washington Heights centers. Up about 30% from FY23 to FY26.

FY23 to FY26 (July 2022 to June 2026). Source: HCC SBS Center client records
Verified funding secured

Awards our clients won in the last four fiscal years.

$17.8M

445 awards to 338 businesses from FY23 to FY26. Term loans made up $11.6M of it.

FY23 to FY26. Source: HCC SBS Center financing records
What people came in for

Services delivered from FY23 to FY26. One person can use more than one.

533 courses ran in those four years, plus 74 requests from employers looking to hire.

FY23 to FY26. Source: HCC SBS Center client records
Who comes through the door

Many people arrive before they have a business at all.

84%of course attendees had not started a business yet.
4,890distinct businesses served from FY23 to FY26.
119events run in Spanish or French, with 2,139 attendees.
FY23 to FY26. Source: HCC SBS Center client records
HCC Small Business Solutions Center

Free advice, training, and help finding funding, from 42nd Street up to Inwood.

Delivered as an NYC Business Solutions Center partner. Source: HCC
Fifty-nine years on 125th Street

The short version of a long institutional history.

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