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Through its work with special lending programs and state-sponsored grants, Lendistry is more than just another small business lender.

On the surface, Lendistry is a small business financing provider, but its mission goes beyond supplying its primary product offerings to growing companies. In addition to business loans, SBA loans and real estate mortgage loans, Lendistry also helps small businesses and their owners through its work with special lending programs like its Airport Concessions Lending Program, the Amazon Community Lending Program, the Colorado CLIMBER Loan Fund and the Colorado Startup Loan Fund. For the Amazon Community Lending Program, which supports urban and rural small businesses in socially and economically distressed communities through short-term loans, Lendistry partnered with Amazon to turn the platform into a long-term offering following its pilot launch in 2021.

“When Amazon came to us with the idea for the Amazon Community Lending Program, we knew it would make a significant difference for small businesses that need responsible capital to grow,” Everett K. Sands, CEO of Lendistry, said in a press release announcing the program’s expansion last September. “Together, we’ve done impactful work to expand opportunities for growing businesses and give them a responsible lending option.”

Based in Tustin, CA, Lendistry has also played a role in supporting grant programs in its home state, such as the California Nonprofit Performing Arts Grant Program. Most recently, the state of California selected Lendistry to serve as administrator for the California Small Business & Nonprofit COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave Relief Grant Program, which launched in early June.

Since its founding in 2014, the company has supported more than 600,000 small businesses with more than $9 billion in small business loans and grants.