Ameris Bank: SBA Lending Record

What SBA's own loan files show about Ameris Bank as an SBA lender, and how a lender's record bears on a feasibility study.

Loans held and dollars at Ameris Bank

SBA files 814 loans approved in FY2017 to FY2026 under Ameris Bank as holder. Ameris Bank loans: $802.2 million in gross approved dollars, 814 loans in all. These 814 loans are ones SBA shows Ameris Bank holding or having held. SBA, never Ameris Bank, is the guarantor. SBA tags 814 as 7(a), none 504, under Ameris Bank. Ameris Bank appears as holder, current or last.

814 loans sit at Ameris Bank, 368 with no tracked class; the others fill Ameris Bank class rows. Ameris Bank class rows start with limited-service restaurant, 75 loans. After that, fitness center at 54, gas station and truck stop (52) and 50 loans in dental office. Further down Ameris Bank: 32 in full-service restaurant, coffee shop and snack bar with 24 loans and RV park and campground at 20. Ameris Bank: more rows in the table.

Ameris Bank opens geographically with Georgia (252), 160 in Florida, Texas (68), 45 in California, North Carolina (44), 25 in Massachusetts, South Carolina (25), 17 in Virginia and Arizona (14). Georgia holds the largest share, 252 loans. Later states carry fewer Ameris Bank loans each; depth varies by place.

Ameris Bank: floors on cancelled and charged-off loans

14.9% is the cancellation floor at Ameris Bank, across FY2017 to FY2024 approvals. 14.9% is the ceiling as well, so Ameris Bank undisbursed loans change nothing. Ameris Bank: 3.6% is charged off, a floor, across 561 loans disbursed FY2017 to FY2021. Ameris Bank: 2.5% charged off within five years. Ameris Bank outcomes show; reasons do not. Ameris Bank cohort rates cover FY2017 to FY2021 disbursements. Ameris Bank: 14.9% is a floor, 814 loans notwithstanding, not a forecast. Ameris Bank rates stay floors; 814 loans could still lift 14.9%.

Ameris Bank: what a borrower can take

For Ameris Bank, a bank or lender, 814 loans sit in SBA records. Ameris Bank credit standards stay undescribed. For Ameris Bank, weigh fitness center, 814 loans deep, and the project against Florida. Sources beside Ameris Bank should be listed in the study, 814 loans or not.

814 loans replace nothing in the study; $802.2 million gross at Ameris Bank informs it only. 814 loans at Ameris Bank set no fitness center demand; Florida conditions decide it, not Ameris Bank. Each budget line, 814 loans aside, meets raised funds. 814 loans give Ameris Bank breadth, not depth. 814 loans or one, a margin must absorb 14.9% at least, Ameris Bank aside. Ameris Bank: on stabilized income, debt service coverage keeps 14.9% in view. At Ameris Bank, loan size follows appraised value. Ameris Bank: a study delivers a file, never approval.

SBA loans held by Ameris Bank

SBA guarantees these loans; the lender does not. The lender's name and every figure come from the U.S. Small Business Administration's public 7(a) and 504 FOIA file (data.sba.gov).

7(a) lender is the bank or lender the loan is currently assigned to (or last held it), as SBA records it; 504 lender is the Certified Development Company (CDC). 504 third-party (first-lien) lenders are free text with no identifier and are not credited.

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY2026814
Gross dollars approved$802.2 million
SBA 7(a) loans814
SBA 504 loans0

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)14.9%
The same, counting loans still undisbursed as cancelled (a ceiling)14.9%
Charged off to date, FY2017 to FY2021 disbursed loans (a floor)3.6%
Charged off within five years of approval2.5%
Loans in that cohort561

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.

Loans by asset class

Asset classLoans
Not in any of the 39 asset classes368
Limited-service restaurant75
Fitness center54
Gas station and truck stop52
Dental office50
Full-service restaurant32
Coffee shop and snack bar24
RV park and campground20
Hotel and motel20
Child care center20
Medical office (physicians)16
Veterinary clinic13
Beauty salon12
Automotive mechanical repair (car and truck)10
Car wash6
Self storage6
Assisted living (without nursing care)6
Nonresidential lessor (flex, office and retail investor buildings)6
Liquor store6

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

Loans by project state

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

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; Loan Analytics lender cell LP-fdic-20504.

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