Business & Economic Development · Active

Community Advantage Loans · SBA · Quiet desk · mega ceiling

Community Advantage Loans (CFDA 59.072) - federal assistance administered by U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.

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$500K–$5M
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The verdict

According to indexed Grants.gov opportunity volume among active SAM.gov programs on PlainGrants, Community Advantage Loans ranks #313 of 504, #11 of 13 within SBA, and #20 of 42 among Business & Economic Development programs by listed funding ceiling. Across 504 active programs, 47.041 leads by opportunity count (319, funding-ceiling rank #249) ≠ 66.054 leads by funding ceiling ($7.0 billion, opportunity rank #326). CFDA 59.072 is an active Business & Economic Development listing with no Grants.gov announcements currently indexed, typically a multi-year or formula-funded program.

$500K–$5M
typical award range (SAM.gov)
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next application deadline
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largest award ceiling indexed
8%
of the catalog is Business & Economic Development

Community Advantage Loans · midpack quiet listing (#226/502 by ceiling)

Community Advantage Loans lands midpack on published ceilings (55th percentile; rank #226 of 502). The printed high is a catalog cap, not a guaranteed outlay.

Community Advantage Loans vs programs with listed funding ceilings

Where this CFDA's SAM.gov award ceiling sits among active Assistance Listings with a reported ceiling

$5,000,000 Top 45% higher than 55% of 502 programs

Programs, banded by listed funding ceiling

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Source SAM.gov Assistance Listings · 2026-09-11

SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate

CFDA 59.072 · SBA VOL-FORMULA · #313/504

VOL-FORMULA · LOWER-HALF · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-NONE · CEIL-MILLION · ELIG-NPO · BOOK-RICH · LISTING-LIVE

  • VOL-FORMULA 0 Grants.gov rows
  • LOWER-HALF #313/504
  • SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
  • NOFO-NONE No NOFO indexed
  • CEIL-MILLION $500K–$5M
  • ELIG-NPO Nonprofit
  • BOOK-RICH no Grants.gov book
  • LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing

Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 59.072

VOL-FORMULA · #313/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.

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Indexed Grants.gov rows · neighbourhood around Community Advantage Loans

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Funding posture

Large-ceiling program without open NOFOs in index

Community Advantage Loans carries a mega-scale SAM.gov ceiling ($500,000 to $5.0 million) while Grants.gov contributes no indexed opportunities under CFDA 59.072. This shape usually marks block/formula assistance or agency-direct awards, not a missing scrape alone.

Assistance Listing text · SBA

Loans through mission-based lenders for small businesses in underserved markets including low-income areas.

Nonprofit-only applicant desk · Business & Economic Development

The printed eligibility set for Community Advantage Loans is nonprofit-only. Government, campus, and for-profit doors are absent from the Assistance Listing row.

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SBA · administering agency

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What to do next

CFDA 59.072: 0 indexed opportunities · 0 open on the recent slice.

  • No open Grants.gov rows on the recent slice, watch this CFDA for the next NOFO drop. How to apply
  • U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) administers 13 Assistance Listings in this extract. Agency catalog
  • Nearest peer by listed ceiling: VA Homeless Veterans Outreach (64.024). Compare program

SAM.gov ceilings are catalog maximums, not guaranteed awards; verify every deadline on Grants.gov before submitting.

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Data sourced from the SAM.gov Assistance Listings and Grants.gov. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainGrants

Every figure on PlainGrants is rendered directly from SAM.gov Assistance Listings data, no number is typed in by an editor. This grant program's figures are rendered directly from SAM.gov Assistance Listings data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data issue on this page.