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Home financing in Orange County.

County-by-county financing guides. No paperwork. No social. No ID.

1 institutions are headquartered inside the Orange County line, and 1 more keep a branch here. Below, we say which is which.

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In this county2DOORS INSIDE THE COUNTY LINE
1HEADQUARTERED HERE
THE DIRECTORY

The doors in Orange 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.

Headquartered in Orange County1
  • Heritage Financial Credit UnionCDFI-certifiedMiddletown · Credit union
    Personal · Home · Business capital
Keeps a branch in Orange County1

Based elsewhere, with a member-facing office inside the Orange County line. You can walk in.

  • Teg Credit UnionPoughkeepsie · Credit union
    Personal · Home · Business capital
Serving all of New York8
  • Adirondack Economic Development CorporationSBA microlenderSaranac Lake · CDFI loan fund
    Community lending · Business capital
  • Ascendus Inc.SBA microlenderNew York · CDFI loan fund
    Community lending · Business capital
  • BOC Capital Corp.SBA microlenderBrooklyn · CDFI loan fund
    Community lending · Business capital
  • Business Consortium Fund, Inc.New York · CDFI loan fund
    Community lending · Business capital
  • Community Capital New York, IncSBA microlenderElmsford · CDFI loan fund
    Community lending · Business capital
  • IN THIS LIST

    9 of the 13 are CDFI-certified.

    The U.S. Treasury certifies them to lend to the people banks pass over. It is a loan, not a favour.

  • Harlem Entrepreneurial Fund, LLCSBA microlenderNew York · CDFI loan fund
    Community lending · Business capital
  • PathStone Enterprise Center, Inc.SBA microlenderRochester · CDFI loan fund
    Community lending · Business capital
  • Renaissance Economic Development CorporationSBA microlenderNew York · CDFI loan fund
    Community lending · Business capital
National — works with an ITIN3
  • Mission Asset FundAccepts ITINSan Francisco · National nonprofit lender

    Zero-interest lending circles and credit building. SSN or ITIN accepted. Works through nonprofit partners across the country.

    Personal
  • Accion Opportunity FundAccepts ITINSan Jose · National nonprofit lender

    Nonprofit small-business lender. Accepts ITIN in place of SSN. Serves most states, in English and Spanish.

    Business capital
  • Grameen AmericaAccepts ITINNew York · National nonprofit lender

    Microloans for women entrepreneurs. Requires photo ID and proof of address — no SSN requirement. Branches in major metro areas.

    Business capital
NO SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER

3 of these doors accept an ITIN.

They will open an application with an ITIN instead of a social security number. They are marked ACCEPTS ITIN below.

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OPEN DOORS IN ORANGE COUNTY
THE GUIDE

Orange County, New York sits in the Hudson Valley and is home to a fast-growing mix of working families, solo contractors, and small real-estate investors — many of them Spanish-speaking. This guide walks you through what home financing looks like at the local level: who qualifies, what documents you need, which local lenders and nonprofits actually serve this county, and what traps to avoid. Federal programs like FHA and USDA are helpful tools, but the real starting point is the network of local credit unions, CDFIs, and community lenders right here in the Hudson Valley.

WHO SAYS YES HERE
1CDFIs

Certified by the U.S. Treasury to lend where a bank will not. Nonprofit, patient, and used to a file that is not clean.

Heritage Financial Credit Union
2Credit unions

Owned by their members, not by shareholders. They look at your whole story rather than a score, and that is the difference when a bank says no.

Heritage Financial Credit Union · Teg Credit Union
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Answered in English and SpanishNo account. No name.3,143 counties · 3,532 institutions