• Neighborhood Focus
  • Support Entrepreneurs
  • Preserve Affordability

Our Role

The C3 Fund, a minority-lead CDFI, will place capital into low to moderate income census tracts. C3 is filling the gap in community development by providing flexible financing solutions to local investors with a focus on revitalizing low to moderate income communities in a way that is beneficial for the borrower and the community.

C3 Fund Mission

Provide BIPOC and women small business owners with capital to rehab 1-4 unit properties in low to moderate income neighborhoods.

Who We Serve

BIPOC and women real estate investors operating in low to moderate income communities with experience of 2 or more projects in the last 3 years

C3 Fund – CDFI

Community Development Financial Institutions play an important role in generating economic growth and opportunity in underserved communities. The CDFI designation is awarded by the US Treasury to mission-driven financial institutions that support economically disadvantaged communities through the injection of new sources of capital into neighborhoods which have historically lacked access to financing.

Our Impact

The C3 Fund will place capital into low to moderate income census tracts in a way that is beneficial for the borrower and the community.

The four pillars that C3 focuses on are:

1) Closing wealth gap for BIPOC and women investors

2) Revitalizing historically disinvested neighborhoods

 

3) Creating quality affordable and workforce housing

4) Creating quality jobs for local subcontractors

Committed to Chicagoland Communities

$15MM

in originations

205

housing units

$200K

average loan size

2,050

jobs created

Funding

Specialty lending requires specialty lenders. C3 Fund works to be the best in lending to small business entrepreneurs who work in the building and housing space.

For a community to thrive economically it requires financial services, and access to investment capital. C3 steps into that gap and fills a need.