Business financing in Weld County.
County-by-county financing guides. No paperwork. No social. No ID.
1 institutions are headquartered inside the Weld County line, and 6 more keep a branch here. Below, we say which is which.
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The doors in Weld County.
The CDFIs, credit unions, and microlenders that actually say yes — county by county, in two languages. We are not a lender. Nobody paid to be listed. And where a county has no good doors, we say so.
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- 329Kresidents of Weld County
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- Northern Colorado Credit UnionPersonal · Home · Business capital
Based elsewhere, with a member-facing office inside the Weld County line. You can walk in.
- Bellco Credit UnionPersonal · Home · Business capital
- Blue Credit UnionPersonal · Home · Business capital
- Canvas Credit UnionPersonal · Home · Business capital
- Credit Union of Colorado, APersonal · Home · Business capital
- Ent Credit UnionPersonal · Home · Business capital
- Security Service Credit UnionPersonal · Home · Business capital
- Accion Opportunity FundAccepts ITIN
Nonprofit small-business lender. Accepts ITIN in place of SSN. Serves most states, in English and Spanish.
Business capital - Grameen AmericaAccepts ITIN
Microloans for women entrepreneurs. Requires photo ID and proof of address — no SSN requirement. Branches in major metro areas.
Business capital - Mission Asset FundAccepts ITIN
Zero-interest lending circles and credit building. SSN or ITIN accepted. Works through nonprofit partners across the country.
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How to read this list.
We do not ask for your name, your email, or your number. Nothing on this page changes based on who you are.
A door is headquartered here when its head office sits inside the county line. The rest are based elsewhere and keep a branch you can walk into. We list both, and we label which is which.
Every institution on this page comes from public federal data — the CDFI Fund certified list (Aug 2026), NCUA credit union data (Mar 2026), and the SBA microloan intermediary list (Sep 2026) — plus a short national tier we verified by hand. We refresh each list as its agency publishes. No listing is paid.
Weld County runs on cattle, irrigated crops, oilfield service work and a construction boom spreading north from Denver — and most of the people doing that work are paid by the load, the job or the invoice. This guide explains what business financing actually is, who tends to qualify here, which documents to gather, and which institutions in our directory genuinely serve this county. It is honest about how thin the local bench is, names the traps, and asks nothing of you in return.
It's a process, not a rejection.
Business financing is any money you borrow, draw on, or receive to start, run, or grow a business. It comes in a handful of shapes, and the shape matters more than the name:
- A term loan — a fixed amount repaid on a schedule. Right for a truck, a trailer, a shop building.
- A line of credit — an approved limit you draw from and repay as work gets paid. Right for fuel, materials and payroll between checks.
- A microloan — a smaller loan, usually from a nonprofit lender, built for new businesses and thin credit files.
- Equipment financing — the machine secures the loan, so the decision leans on the equipment rather than years of history.
- Operating loans for agriculture — a seasonal line sized to a crop or feeding cycle, repaid when the crop or the cattle sell. This is its own world of lending, and Weld County is squarely in it.
The county's economy decides which one fits. Weld is one of the country's serious cattle-feeding and beef-processing counties, with Greeley at the center of it. Around that sit irrigated row crops and dairy — corn, beets, onions, beans, hay — and all the trucking, custom harvesting, welding, irrigation and equipment service work that farming requires.
Overlaid on top is the oil and gas field: pad construction, water hauling, roustabout crews, fencing, gravel and dirt work.
And along the southern and western edges, in Windsor, Erie, Firestone, Frederick and Johnstown, residential construction has been running hard, which keeps framing, concrete, roofing, drywall and landscaping crews busy.
What almost all of it shares is that you spend before you get paid. Fuel, seed, materials and a crew come first; the check comes in thirty, sixty or ninety days, or after the harvest. That gap — not a shortage of work — is what closes small operations here.
Forget what the banks say.
Lenders ask four things, in this order: can you repay, what does your borrowing history show, how long have you been at it, and does the work make sense in this market. None of that requires perfect credit or a Social Security Number.
What tends to qualify here:
- Oilfield service contractors — water haulers, pad and fence builders, roustabout crews, welders — who can show a run of invoices to operators. Be ready to explain what happens when drilling slows; a good lender will ask.
- Owner-operators in agricultural and general freight, often with one tractor and a seasonal haul pattern.
- Farm and ranch operations, including beginning farmers, custom harvesters, hay and feed haulers, and small dairy and produce growers.
- Construction trades working 1099 for builders along the Front Range growth corridor — framing, concrete, roofing, drywall, landscaping.
- Storefront and service businesses in Greeley and the smaller towns — restaurants, groceries, bakeries, tire and auto repair, cleaning companies. Cash-heavy is fine; undocumented is the problem.
- Small landlords buying and repairing rentals in Greeley and the surrounding towns and running it as a business.
The honest complication is that income here is lumpy in two different ways at once: agricultural cycles and drilling cycles.
A lender who knows this county will ask about your slow season rather than pretend it does not exist — bring that answer with you.
If your credit file is thin or the business is under two years old, nonprofit microlenders and agricultural programs are the realistic first door, not the last resort.
Get your papers in order.
Every institution keeps its own checklist, but this set covers most small-business applications in Colorado. Assembling it in advance is the biggest time-saver available to you:
- 01Government photo ID
Driver's license, passport, or consular identification
- 02ITIN or SSN
And the business EIN if you have one (the IRS issues EINs at no cost)
- 03Proof the business exists
Your Colorado entity filing, or a trade name registration if you operate under a name other than your own
- 04Personal tax returns for the last two years
Including Schedule C or Schedule F if you farm
- 05Business tax returns if the business files separately
- 06Three to six months of bank statements
Business accounts if you have them, personal accounts if that is genuinely where the money lands
- 071099s your customers issued
Plus signed contracts, purchase orders or master service agreements with operators or builders
- 08Simple profit-and-loss summary
A one-page sheet you typed yourself counts as a start
- 09List of equipment
Trucks, trailers and tools you could pledge as collateral, with rough values
- 10For farm and ranch borrowing
Acres farmed, lease agreements, water shares or well permits, and crop or livestock insurance documents
- 11Certificate of insurance
Your Colorado sales tax license if you sell taxable goods, and any city or county contractor license your work requires
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The doors worth knowing.
Here is the honest picture, and it matters more than a long list would. Only one institution in this directory is headquartered inside the Weld County line — no bank, no CDFI loan fund, no statewide mission lender.
ALL 7 DOORS, BY NAME AND BY TOWN- 7
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Based in Greenwood Villa, Colorado. A credit union — owned by its members rather than by shareholders, which is exactly what changes the conversation after a bank has said no.
BEST FORA personal loan, or building a credit file from nothing, and buying, repairing or refinancing a home.Based in Cheyenne, Wyoming. A member-owned credit union, which means the people deciding on your file answer to depositors in the same towns you work in.
BEST FORBuying, repairing or refinancing a home, and working capital, equipment and payroll for a small business.Based in Lone Tree, Colorado. A credit union: no shareholders to satisfy, and a habit of reading a whole story rather than a single score.
BEST FORWorking capital, equipment and payroll for a small business, and a personal loan, or building a credit file from nothing.Based in San Antonio, Texas. A credit union — owned by its members rather than by shareholders, which is exactly what changes the conversation after a bank has said no.
BEST FORA personal loan, or building a credit file from nothing, and buying, repairing or refinancing a home.
Don't fall into these traps.
Lumpy income and a thin local lending bench attract expensive money. These patterns show up here constantly.
Not loans — a purchase of your future receipts at a steep discount, collected by daily or weekly withdrawals. Legal, fast, and far more expensive than anything a credit union would charge. When drilling slows or the crop is late, the daily draft does not slow with it. Treat an MCA as an emergency tool, never a first plan.
Once you have one advance, brokers call with a second and a third. Each takes its cut from the same receipts. Stacking is how a working operation becomes insolvent in a single season.
Legitimate fees come out of a funded loan. Large upfront fees, application fees on a loan you have not been approved for, or a wire request before closing are all reasons to hang up.
Read the buyout. A low monthly payment with a large balloon at the end can cost far more than a straightforward loan on the same machine — and used farm and oilfield equipment holds value unpredictably.
In oilfield service work, one operator's payment cycle can be your whole cash flow. Know your lien deadlines, invoice promptly, and do not finance growth on the assumption that a slow payer will speed up.
Real public grant programs do not phone you, do not charge a processing fee, and never ask for a gift card or a wire. Anyone contacting you in Spanish about a "government business grant" and requesting payment is running a scam.
No real lender needs your signature today. If the offer expires in an hour, the offer is the trap. Get two written quotes and have someone you trust read both.
Everything below is set by Colorado, and it reads the same in every county in it. The 7 marks above are this county's own doors — who opens one is decided by them, not by the state.
The rules where you are.
Colorado entities register with the Secretary of State, sole proprietors using a business name file a trade name, and registered entities owe a periodic report each year. Letting that lapse puts your good standing — and your loan — in question. Lenders check.
Apply directly to the IRS. Any service charging a fee is charging you for something you can do yourself in minutes.
You may need a state license from the Department of Revenue plus separate licensing and filing with home-rule cities that collect their own tax. Greeley and several other municipalities administer their own. Sort this out before you apply for financing rather than after — unpaid sales tax is one of the fastest ways to sink an otherwise good application.
Colorado does not issue a single statewide general contractor license; cities and counties license contractors through their building departments, so the rules change between Greeley, Windsor and unincorporated Weld. Electricians and plumbers are licensed at the state level. A lender financing equipment may ask for your license number.
Colorado gives contractors and suppliers lien rights on work performed — a main reason small shops get paid. Those rights have deadlines, and the waivers you sign at each draw can give them away. Read every payment application.
Many Weld County landowners receive oil and gas royalty payments. Lenders generally average that income over years rather than counting a strong recent stretch, and some will discount it entirely. Bring the statements and ask how the institution treats it before you build a plan around it.
If your operation depends on irrigation, your shares, ditch rights or well permits are part of your collateral picture. Have the documents ready; an agricultural lender will ask for them early.
The short version.
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Weld County does a great deal of work and has very little of its own lending. Only one institution in this directory is headquartered inside the county line, so spend your calls carefully.
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Start with Northern Colorado in Greeley, the one door based here, and ask whether it does member business lending. Then work through the branch tier — Bellco, Canvas, Credit Union of Colorado, Ent, Security Service and Blue — asking each the same questions. If you hold an ITIN rather than a Social Security Number, the national nonprofits above are verified to work with ITIN borrowers, and you are entitled to ask any institution the question directly. If you farm or ranch, the USDA Farm Service Agency's beginning farmer programs deserve a call before anything else.
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Before you apply: register the business, get the free EIN, straighten out your sales tax licensing, pull two years of returns and six months of statements, and write one page explaining what you do and how the loan gets repaid. Then take the free hour with the Colorado SBDC or SCORE. It costs nothing and it changes how your file reads.
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Compare at least two written offers. Never let a deadline someone else invented decide what you sign.
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