The Bank of Princeton: SBA Lending Record

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

The Bank of Princeton: loans and programs

The Bank of Princeton has 326 approved loans in SBA's files, $266.0 million gross, FY2017 to FY2026. Program split at The Bank of Princeton: 326 for 7(a), 0 for 504. The Bank of Princeton holds or held these 326 loans, as SBA records them. SBA, not The Bank of Princeton, guarantees these 326 loans. Counts for The Bank of Princeton describe records only. In SBA's file, The Bank of Princeton sits in NJ.

Where the loans of The Bank of Princeton sit

The tracked classes leave 182 of The Bank of Princeton's 326 loans out of view. Across tracked classes, The Bank of Princeton stands thus: Limited-service restaurant (35), Full-service restaurant (30), Liquor store (30), Hotel and motel (25), Grocery store (9). A buyer planning Limited-service restaurant can look at 35 loans on the record of The Bank of Princeton. The Bank of Princeton shows 30 loans in Full-service restaurant, the next class. In Liquor store, The Bank of Princeton shows 30 loans. New Jersey follows with 105 loans in the record of The Bank of Princeton. The state column for The Bank of Princeton opens New York (147), New Jersey (105), Pennsylvania (69). NJ is the lender state; New York carries the most loans, 147.

The Bank of Princeton: cancellations and losses

Of The Bank of Princeton approvals from FY2017 to FY2024, 12.6% are known cancelled, a floor, and 12.6% is the ceiling when undisbursed loans are read as cancelled. Every rate for The Bank of Princeton is a floor, and so further losses in the group would raise it. Of The Bank of Princeton loans disbursed in FY2017 to FY2021, 5.4% are charged off to date, a floor, across 277 loans. The five-year view for The Bank of Princeton, measured from approval, reads 2.2%.

What a study should test with The Bank of Princeton

Limited-service restaurant at The Bank of Princeton leads off with a check on demand. After that, a study of Full-service restaurant must test development cost, with 30 such loans on The Bank of Princeton's record. Debt service coverage follows, and $266.0 million across 326 loans at The Bank of Princeton does not settle it for a borrower. At the end follows the appraisal, which no count of 30 Liquor store loans at The Bank of Princeton can displace. An applicant in New York can compare with 147 loans in the record of The Bank of Princeton, and one in New Jersey, 105. The Bank of Princeton alone knows what it expects. Nothing implies approval, and The Bank of Princeton sets its own terms.

SBA loans held by The Bank of Princeton

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 FY2026326
Gross dollars approved$266.0 million
SBA 7(a) loans326
SBA 504 loans0

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)12.6%
The same, counting loans still undisbursed as cancelled (a ceiling)12.6%
Charged off to date, FY2017 to FY2021 disbursed loans (a floor)5.4%
Charged off within five years of approval2.2%
Loans in that cohort277

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 classes182
Limited-service restaurant35
Full-service restaurant30
Liquor store30
Hotel and motel25
Grocery store9

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
New York147
New Jersey105
Pennsylvania69

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-58513.

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