cdfidata 0.1.4

ETL pipeline for CDFI Fund and DOL public datasets — TLR, CLR, ILR, NMTC, Awards, and LCA (Labor Condition Application) data

cdfi-data 🏦

ETL pipeline for US Treasury CDFI Fund public datasets.

Download, clean, and analyze Transaction Level Report (TLR), Consumer Loan Report (CLR), and Awards data from the US Department of Treasury's CDFI Fund — in one line of Python.

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Why cdfi-data?

The CDFI Fund releases massive public datasets covering millions of loans and investments in low-income communities. But the raw files are messy, inconsistently formatted, and require significant cleaning before analysis. cdfi-data standardizes the entire pipeline.

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Installation

pip install cdfidata

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Quickstart

from cdfidata import TLRLoader, CLRLoader, AwardsLoader

# Load TLR transaction data (downloads & caches automatically)
tlr = TLRLoader()
df = tlr.load(year=2022)

# Filter to Illinois
il = tlr.filter_state("IL")

# Filter by loan type and amount
small_biz = tlr.filter_loan_type("Business")
large = tlr.filter_amount(min_amount=500_000)

# Summary stats
tlr.summary()

# Export
tlr.to_csv("cdfi_transactions.csv")
tlr.to_sqlite("cdfi.db", table="tlr")

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Sample Data (No Download Required)

from cdfidata import TLRLoader, CLRLoader, AwardsLoader

tlr = TLRLoader()
df = tlr.load_sample(n=1000)

clr = CLRLoader()
df = clr.load_sample(n=1000)

awards = AwardsLoader()
df = awards.load_sample(n=500)

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Datasets Supported

Dataset	Source	Description
TLR (Transaction Level Report)	CDFI Fund	1M+ individual CDFI loans, 61 variables
CLR (Consumer Loan Report)	CDFI Fund	3.2M consumer loans aggregated to census tract
Awards Database	CDFI Fund	All CDFI Fund program awardees across all years
LCA (Labor Condition Application)	DOL OFLC	H-1B visa filing disclosure data, quarterly

Coming soon: ILR (Institution Level Report), NMTC Allocatee data

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Data Sources

CDFI Fund datasets (TLR, CLR, Awards) come from the US Department of Treasury CDFI Fund: https://www.cdfifund.gov/research-data

LCA datasets come from the US Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC): https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/performance

All data is released under open government data principles.

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Running Tests

PYTHONPATH=. pytest tests/ -v

30 tests across all modules.

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Who This Is For

• Impact investors analyzing CDFI loan portfolios
• Academic researchers studying community development finance
• Policy analysts evaluating CDFI Fund program outcomes
• CDFIs benchmarking their own performance against peers
• Anyone who needs clean, analysis-ready CDFI Fund data

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License

MIT 2026 Jaypatel1511