Bell Bank: SBA Lending Record

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

SBA's record for Bell Bank

303 approved loans sit against Bell Bank in FY2017 to FY2026 files, $215.6 million gross. Bell Bank is recorded by SBA in North Dakota. All 303 loans are holdings: Bell Bank holds or last held each, per SBA. 303 loans sit under SBA 7(a). Bell Bank has 0 under SBA 504. Bell Bank's FY2026 counts as a finished year. 303 loans, $215.6 million gross: that is Bell Bank's whole record. SBA, not Bell Bank, stands behind the 303 loans; the figures show holdings, not policy.

233 loans among Bell Bank's 303 carry no named class. Bell Bank's class table reads: Fitness center (10); Beauty salon (10); Beverage manufacturing (breweries, wineries, distilleries), 9; Limited-service restaurant, 9; Full-service restaurant (6); Medical office (physicians) (5). Of 303 loans, 233 are unclassed and 10 are Fitness center. A class view of Bell Bank spans part of 303. At Bell Bank, 10 Beauty salon loans follow 10 Fitness center.

Bell Bank by state

Bell Bank shows these states: Minnesota, 141; Arizona (111); North Dakota, 32; Wisconsin at 8. North Dakota, where SBA records Bell Bank, is not the first line. 141 of Bell Bank's 303 loans sit in Minnesota. Bell Bank's table maps 303 loans, no boundary for sites beyond Minnesota.

Bell Bank outcome floors

Bell Bank saw at least 4.8% of FY2017 to FY2024 approvals cancelled. Within Bell Bank's 303 loans, the upper bound is missing. That figure would count undisbursed loans as cancelled ones. A Loan Analytics test keeps it out for cohorts of few loans. Read the gap as unknown; nothing is inferred. Regarding Bell Bank, the charge-off figure is absent for disbursements between FY2017 and FY2021. A Loan Analytics rule keeps it out for groups this small. Treat it as unknown rather than zero; nothing is inferred. Bell Bank shows 4.8% cancelled, so approval is not funding. Bell Bank: no rate, cash flow must hold. For Bell Bank, test one is site demand. For Bell Bank, test two is full project cost. At Bell Bank, test three is debt service coverage. At Bell Bank, test four is the appraisal.

Bell Bank's file hands a lender 303 loans and $215.6 million gross. Bell Bank's book gives a borrower 303 holdings, not terms. The 303 loans cannot show how Bell Bank would treat a request. 10 Fitness center loans sit at the top. Bell Bank's record stops at holdings. For Bell Bank, bring a self-standing study. Bell Bank is shown as holder of 303 loans, no more.

SBA loans held by Bell 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 FY2026303
Gross dollars approved$215.6 million
SBA 7(a) loans303
SBA 504 loans0

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)4.8%
The same, counting loans still undisbursed as cancelled (a ceiling)withheld
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.

Loans by asset class

Asset classLoans
Not in any of the 39 asset classes233
Fitness center10
Beauty salon10
Beverage manufacturing (breweries, wineries, distilleries)9
Limited-service restaurant9
Full-service restaurant6
Medical office (physicians)5

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

Loans by project state

State or areaLoans
Minnesota141
Arizona111
North Dakota32
Wisconsin8

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-19581.

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