SBA lender · 504 / CDC program
Chesapeake Business Finance Corporation
Chesapeake Business Finance Corporation has approved 209 SBA loans worth $257.6M since FY2010 - the #301 SBA lender in the country by dollars approved. Everything below comes from the SBA’s own loan-level records.
National rank
#301
0.05% of all SBA dollars
Total approved
$257.6M
FY2010 onward
Loans
209
Median loan
$858,000
+377% vs national
Median rate
-
7(a) only
Charge-off rate
8.6%
81 resolved FY10-19 loans
Source: U.S. Small Business Administration, SBA 7(a) and 504 FOIA data, as of 2026-06-30. Approvals from FY2010 onward. How we calculate this.
Reading the record
What Chesapeake Business Finance Corporation’s numbers say
Chesapeake Business Finance Corporation sits in the long tail of the SBA lending field, having approved 209 loans for a gross total of $257.6M since fiscal 2010. Its median loan of $858,000 is substantially larger than the $180,000 national median, a pattern that usually signals a focus on real-estate-backed or acquisition deals rather than small working-capital notes.
Of its FY2010-FY2019 approvals that have reached a terminal status, 8.6% were charged off, 1.1 points above the national figure of 7.6%. Read that as a description of the credit box a lender chose, not as a verdict on it: lenders serving newer businesses and thinner files will always show higher losses than those writing large, collateralised acquisition loans.
Roughly 5% of its approvals with a recorded business age went to startups or businesses two years old or less, against 27% nationally - a book weighted toward established operators.
Where Chesapeake Business Finance Corporation lends
| State | Loans | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 154 | |
| Virginia | 26 | |
| District of Columbia | 24 | |
| Delaware | 4 | |
| South Carolina | 1 |
Franchise brands Chesapeake Business Finance Corporation financed
| Franchise brand | Loans | Approved | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| International House of Pancakes | 4 | $1.8M | |
| Holiday Inn Express | 4 | $10.6M | |
| Sonic | 3 | $3.3M | |
| Country Inns & Suites | 3 | $6.7M | |
| The Goddard School | 2 | $6.1M | |
| Hampton Inns | 2 | $4.7M | |
| Holiday Inn | 2 | $3.8M | |
| Checkers Drive-in Restaurant | 1 | $276K |
Brands with the most Chesapeake Business Finance Corporation SBA loans, among brands with at least 10 loans in the file. Compare lenders across all franchise lending on SBA lenders for franchises.
Source: U.S. Small Business Administration, SBA 7(a) and 504 FOIA data, as of 2026-06-30. Approvals from FY2010 onward. How we calculate this.
Questions about Chesapeake Business Finance Corporation
- How many SBA loans has Chesapeake Business Finance Corporation approved?
- Chesapeake Business Finance Corporation has approved 209 SBA loans totalling $257,566,000 in gross approvals from fiscal year 2010 through the most recent SBA data release. That places it #301 among all SBA lenders by dollars approved.
- What is the typical Chesapeake Business Finance Corporation SBA loan size?
- The median gross approval is $858,000, with the middle 80% of loans falling between $331,000 and $2,560,000. The national median across all SBA lenders is $180,000.
- What is Chesapeake Business Finance Corporation's SBA loan charge-off rate?
- 8.6% of its FY2010-FY2019 approvals that have reached a terminal status were charged off, against a national figure of 7.6%. A charge-off rate reflects the borrowers a lender chose to underwrite as much as anything else, and is not a measure of service quality.
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