2026 category · 6 honorees
Community Credit Unions
Member owned credit unions that focus on the neighborhoods and communities around them. The editors apply the five criteria listed in our methodology.
Full Community Credit Unions register · 2026
Latino Community Credit Union is a member owned, bilingual credit union headquartered in North Carolina, with branches across the state. Its about page says it has made $2.3 billion in loans to members since 2000.
Hope Credit Union serves people in under resourced communities across the Deep South from its main office on Old River Place in Jackson, Mississippi. Its about page traces this work back to 1994.
Alternatives Federal Credit Union is a credit union and CDFI on North Fulton Street in Ithaca, New York. It serves low to moderate income and marginalized communities in Tompkins County.
Clearwater Credit Union practices what it calls values based banking from its headquarters in Missoula, Montana. Its site calls it the largest CDFI in Montana.
Lower East Side People's Federal Credit Union is a community development credit union with a branch at 37 Avenue B in Manhattan. It has received federal CDFI Fund awards to support its growth.
Brooklyn Cooperative Federal Credit Union was founded in 2001 to serve Central and Eastern Brooklyn. It is a certified CDFI with a branch on Myrtle Avenue in Bushwick.