Assistance program
Small Business Investment Companies
$0 committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Small Business Administration, Small Business Administration
- Assistance
- Guaranteed/Insured Loans
- CFDA number
- 59.011
- What it does
- To establish privately owned and managed Small Business Investment Companies (SBICs), which are licensed and regulated by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), and to issue debt to licensed SBICs that may provide private equity capital and long term loan funds to small businesses and provide advisory services to small businesses in which they invest.
- Who benefits
- Individual businesses (single proprietorship, partnership or corporation) which satisfy the established criteria of a small business. For more information, please go to: https://www.sba.gov/partners/sbics/apply-be-sbic#section-header-6.
- Who applies
- Any chartered small business investment company having private capital of not less than $5 million, having qualified management, giving evidence of sound operation, and establishing the need for SBIC financing in the geographic area in which the applicant proposes to operate. For more information, please go to: https://www.sba.gov/partners/sbics/apply-be-sbic#section-header-4.
- Authorized by
- Small Business Investment Act of 1958, Title III (15 U.S.C. 681 et seq.)
- Program site
- http://www.sba.gov/sbic ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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