Missouri Stories and Data

Missouri Stories

St. Mary’s South Side Catholic High School
A ?94-Year-Old Startup? High School Secures Its Future With CDFI Support
KC Predevelopment Fund
LISC Greater Kansas City, one of the nation’s largest Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI), in partnership with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the Hall Family Foundation, and the City of Kansas City, Missouri, has established a $4 million Catalytic Urban Predevelopment Fund to provide low-interest, flexible predevelopment loans for projects in the urban core of Kansas City, Missouri (KCMO) and Kansas City, Kansas (KCK). The fund will act as a catalyst to spur development in low to moderate income neighborhoods by providing the critical capital necessary in the early phases of real estate development projects.
Home Repair in Jackson County
Minor home repair is a critical but often overlooked means to combat displacement, maintain a home’s value that can be passed on next generation, ensure a safe and healthy living environment, reduce utility bills, preserve a home’s valuable and often historic building materials, and more.
New Homes Bring Hope to 39th Street Corridor
Many east side residents were saddened when a fire destroyed the former Horace Mann Elementary School seven years ago. The school, which closed in 1979, had a long and rich legacy of educating generations of students.

Map of Missouri CDFI Branches and Stories

Thank you to our partners at Inclusive and CDBA for sharing data on CDFI Bank and CDFI Credit Union branch locations. In addition, about 100 of our CDFI Stories come from OFN’s story database.

Missouri Investment Map

CDFI Investment Map

Mapped CDFI investment data (2005-2023), via the CDFI Coalition's partnership with CDFI Friendly America.

CDFI Advocacy App

Want more state data? Check out CDFI Friendly America's mobile-friendly CDFI Advocacy App for impacts from 2005-2023.

Missouri Fact Sheet

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CDFIs support the needs of small businesses and consumers in rural, suburban, and urban areas across the United States. The designation is key to legitimizing and elevating our work with banks and other leveraged investors who align with our industry to bring affordable capital to markets that need catalytic investments to sustain and grow small businesses. These businesses create jobs, provide goods and services, and pay taxes that build strong communities. We need to preserve and grow the CDFI Fund for all Americans.

Patricia Parchmon, St. Louis Community Credit Union, St. Louis, MO

CDFIs and Credit Unions help people of modest means when other FI’s do not. We are the last bastion of hope in banking for the little guy.

Michelle Rosner, Alltru Credit Union, Wentzville, MO

CDFIs in Missouri provide essential capital to help small businesses grow and contribute to the economy and their families. We must not delay in ensuring these critical organizations have the resources necessary to continue supporting the resilience of businesses, families, and communities across our state and our country.

Colleen Hafner, Rise Community Development, St. Louis, MO

We support CDFI lending.

Kimberly Stocks, Alltru Credit Union, Wentzville, MO