Feasibility Study Data for the Grand Rapids, MN Micro Area

What SBA's own loan files show about lending in the Grand Rapids, MN Micro Area, every asset class together, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.

Grand Rapids, MN: scale and ticket size, 113 loans

Grand Rapids, MN holds rank 447 of 928 by loans, with 113 approvals for FY2017 to FY2026, $37.4 million gross. Ticket size in Grand Rapids leans low, with $150,000 at the median, 0.72x the national median. The middle half of Grand Rapids approvals runs from $63,000 up to $337,000. In Grand Rapids, a request far outside $63,000 to $337,000 will draw questions. The Grand Rapids study should answer them early in Grand Rapids.

In Grand Rapids, SBA 7(a) accounts for 84 loans, against 29 under SBA 504. 4.4% of the Grand Rapids loans went to franchised businesses. Grand Rapids named classes stand rv park and campground with 6. The Grand Rapids total of 113 also contains 68 loans that no named class captures. In Grand Rapids, only Itasca County, MN appears, holding 113 loans in Grand Rapids.

Grand Rapids lenders: the field in Grand Rapids, MN

In Grand Rapids, these tables draw on SBA's listing of loans each institution retains or retained, under the holder note, so they measure books, not rules. Grand Rapids holders should be read that way. Grand Rapids SBA 7(a) holders at the top: Northeast Entrepreneur Fund, Inc. with 20 loans worth $3.5 million; Members Cooperative Credit Union with 12 loans worth $865,800; Park State Bank with 9 loans worth $806,100. In Grand Rapids, SBA 504 holders are led by Midwest Business Finance Corporation with 21 loans worth $9.2 million. The first holder in Grand Rapids sets the pace. Even so, a Grand Rapids borrower may take a study elsewhere in Grand Rapids.

Among FY2017 to FY2024 approvals, Grand Rapids cancellation after approval is 8.7%, a floor. A Grand Rapids ceiling of 8.7% treats unfunded loans as cancelled. In Grand Rapids, the charge-off rate for the disbursed class of FY2017 to FY2021 remains hidden in Grand Rapids, cohort thin; do not read that as zero in Grand Rapids. FY2021, at 32 loans, tops the printed yearly counts for Grand Rapids. Parts of the Grand Rapids yearly series vanish for resting on too few loans, and we offer Grand Rapids no estimate for them. Boundaries for Grand Rapids come from a project's county, from the file per the July 2023 delineation, consequently one with a county left unresolved appears in no area. The 113 loans in Grand Rapids, MN include those in no named class in Grand Rapids.

Grand Rapids: the tests a study cannot skip in Grand Rapids, MN

Demand ranks first for Grand Rapids. Measure the trade area around the site, instead of the micropolitan area, with a cautious ramp shown in Grand Rapids. Grand Rapids cost comes next. Lenders fund a $150,000 median here, even if an outlier needs explaining, plus working capital and reserves in Grand Rapids. The Grand Rapids loan has to be serviceable. Calculate coverage at the loan size alongside a weaker revenue case, since approval is no guarantee in Grand Rapids. Appraisal closes the loop in Grand Rapids, so the study's value logic must explain any gap in Grand Rapids. Micropolitan Grand Rapids offers a thin base of 113 loans. A Grand Rapids study should disclose borrowed benchmarks. At 0.72x of the national median, a very large Grand Rapids project may look unusual. The study should explain its scale for Grand Rapids against $150,000.

SBA loans in the Grand Rapids, MN Micro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY2026113
Gross dollars approved$37.4 million
Median loan$150,000
Middle half of loans, from$63,000
Middle half of loans, to$337,000
SBA 7(a) loans84
SBA 504 loans29
Franchise share of loans4.4%
Rank among metro and micro areas by loans447 of 928
Median loan against the national median0.72x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)8.7%
The same, counting loans still undisbursed as cancelled (a ceiling)8.7%
Charged off to date, FY2017 to FY2021 disbursed loans (a floor)withheld

Both rates are floors. SBA withholds the status of open loans, so a loan counts as charged off only once SBA reports it; a rate needs at least 30 loans in its cohort and is otherwise not reported.

SBA loans approved in the Grand Rapids, MN Micro Area, by fiscal year

010203040FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2018: 16Loans, FY2019: 13Loans, FY2020: 15Loans, FY2021: 32Loans, FY2022: 9Loans, FY2024: 9
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY2017withheldwithheld
FY201816$3.5 million
FY201913$1.8 million
FY202015$1.5 million
FY202132$15.8 million
FY20229$3.4 million
FY2023withheldwithheld
FY20249$3.6 million
FY2025withheldwithheld
FY2026withheldwithheld

Loans by asset class

Asset classLoans
Not in any of the 39 asset classes68
RV park and campground6

Classes with 5 or more loans; smaller ones are withheld, and more where a small one could be derived.

Most active SBA lenders

SBA 504: lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
Midwest Business Finance Corporation21$9.2 million
SBA 7(a): lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
Northeast Entrepreneur Fund, Inc.20$3.5 million
Members Cooperative Credit Union12$865,800
Park State Bank9$806,100
Woodland Bank8$492,500
Frandsen Bank and Trust6$2.5 million

Lenders with 5 or more loans here; a lender with fewer is not listed, and loans SBA or a receiver holds are counted but never listed as a lender.

Where the loans are, by county

CountyLoans
Itasca County, MN113

Counties with 5 or more loans; smaller ones are not listed.

Metro is the CBSA (metropolitan or micropolitan statistical area) of the loan's project county, July 2023 delineation (OMB Bulletin 23-01). The county is matched by name (manifests/ld2/county-cbsa-map.csv); a loan whose county cannot be placed in a 2023 CBSA is left out of every metro.

All assets: every 7(a) and 504 approval in the metro, including those outside the 39 asset classes.

A value marked withheld rests on fewer than 5 loans, or is withheld so that such a figure cannot be derived from other published figures.

Source: U.S. Small Business Administration, 7(a) and 504 loan-level FOIA files (data.sba.gov), as of 2026-09-30; areas from the U.S. Census Bureau CBSA delineation, July 2023 (OMB Bulletin 23-01); Loan Analytics metro cell MT-24330.

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