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PPP fees against Federal Reserve funding, fifteen lenders

Benworth Capital earned $697.41 million in modeled SBA processing fees on the PPP loans it originated. Its Federal Reserve PPPLF balance peaked at $4.20 billion: 16.6 cents of fee per dollar of peak Fed funding, second among the fifteen lenders here to Lendistry, whose $483.43 million peak was smaller than its $521.08 million of fees. Harvest Small Business Finance earned $1.00 billion against an $11.52 billion peak, 8.7 cents. The Loan Source earned $866,573 against a $9.16 billion peak; its own originations were 192 loans and $22.4 million.

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Columns13
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Source vintageSBA PPP loan-level file, release of September 30, 2024 (modeled fees); Fed PPPLF transaction-specific disclosures, 70 workbooks (releases of July 10, 2020 to March 11, 2026); FFIEC call reports, June 30, 2020 to June 30, 2021 (bank or nonbank)
Published byPandemic Darlings
Acquired / built2026-10-15
Built fromPPPLF advances by lender and Modeled PPP lender fees by loan size
SHA-2568653b459db3a417bb05bc6be6f9fda3850b7765a54679d267f92f8065b979aa4
RightsDerived from U.S. government public data; attribution to Pandemic Darlings requested.
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At a glance

Measured on the file on 2026-10-15; the checksum above is the file these numbers describe.

Rows15
Columns13
Keyinstitution_rssd · unique
Cells left blank0 of 195 · 0.0%
Lenders15 (11 nonbank, 4 banks)
Modeled SBA fees, all fifteen$7.93 billion
Of which nonbank lenders$5.89 billion
Sum of the fifteen peak balances$73.77 billion
Highest fee per dollar of peakLendistry · 1.08 dollars
NextBenworth · 16.6 cents
LowestThe Loan Source · 0.0 cents

What it is

One row for each of fifteen PPP lenders that borrowed from the Paycheck Protection Program Liquidity Facility. Each row holds the PPP loans and dollars the lender originated under its own name, the SBA processing fees modeled on those loans, and the lender's PPPLF advances, peak balance and peak date. Two ratios join the sides: fee per dollar of peak Fed funding, and peak Fed funding as a share of the lender's own origination volume.

The share runs past 100% for six nonbank lenders: Harvest 140.7%, Fountainhead 113.5%, Prestamos 104.6%, Capital Plus 103.0%, Benworth 99.4% and Itria 98.0% sit at or near it, and The Loan Source stands at 40945.9%. A lender could pledge PPP loans it bought from other originators, so its Fed balance can exceed what it originated. The four banks ran lower: Celtic 73.1%, Customers 76.0%, Cross River 77.6%, WebBank 86.3%.

The fees are modeled, not paid: the SBA schedule applied to each loan's amount and draw, as the fee table this page is built from describes. Cross River Bank's $1.03 billion of modeled fees against a $10.01 billion peak is 10.3 cents per dollar. Lendistry's $521.08 million against a $483.43 million peak is 1.08 dollars of fee per dollar of peak, because its Fed balance stayed small beside its originations.

How it was built

The PPPLF side is the lender's row in the combined disclosure table: advances, gross, peak and peak date, keyed on the Federal Reserve RSSD. The fee side is the lender's row in the modeled fee table, keyed on the originating-lender name the SBA file prints; the fifteen pairs were matched by name and checked by loan count. A lender is a bank when its RSSD files a call report in the FFIEC bulk file for the quarter-end on or before its peak date, and a nonbank otherwise.

Fee per dollar of peak = modeled fees divided by peak balance. Peak as a share of own volume = peak balance divided by the lender's originated PPP dollars, in percent with one decimal. Rows are sorted by peak balance, largest first.

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institution_rssdinstitution_nameoriginating_lenderlender_typeppp_loansppp_amount_usdmodeled_sba_fees_usdppplf_n_advancesppplf_gross_advances_usdppplf_peak_outstanding_usdppplf_peak_datepeak_pct_of_ppp_amountfees_per_dollar_peak
5500251PPPLF HARVEST SMALL BUS FNCHarvest Small Business Finance, LLCnonbank4081738186742159.751002631927.1012012727880180.5511518536906.042021-06-30140.70.0870
3783313CROSS RIVER BKCross River Bankbank47886612894672292.931034618127.0030918805308340.6910011245136.222021-04-3077.60.1033
5511408PPPLF THE LOAN SOURCELoan Source Incorporatednonbank19222374421.63866572.89106336179541720.929161408154.172021-06-3040945.90.0001
5503636PPPLF PRESTAMOS CDFIPrestamos CDFI, LLCnonbank4447806849909471.861055074365.581277170529098.557162941713.302021-07-31104.60.1473
5511314PPPLF CAPITAL PLUSCapital Plus Financial, LLCnonbank3953596213416269.31937325953.932056459179299.436397994161.642021-07-31103.00.1465
2354985CUSTOMERS BKCustomers Bankbank2496616330041848.56558207417.992047368139542.664811009450.022020-09-3076.00.1160
5502433PPPLF ITRIA VENTS LLCItria Ventures LLCnonbank1728314867055202.52473404806.062084905099619.794770125283.352021-05-3198.00.0992
5499672PPPLF FOUNTAINHEAD SBF LLCFountainhead SBF LLCnonbank2722274126997776.90640621923.233625486440402.634685738180.742021-05-31113.50.1367
5501164PPPLF BENWORTH CAP PTNRS LLCBenworth Capitalnonbank3110224222794691.53697409428.021504304482271.814197908018.652021-07-3199.40.1661
2998576CELTIC BK CORPCeltic Bank Corporationbank1672014494635837.48233058941.751473652475078.103284050754.792021-03-3173.10.0710
2576134WEBBANKWebBankbank1191823184249932.86214544212.142563650686437.502747159896.482021-04-3086.30.0781
5509834PPPLF READYCAP LEND LLCReadycap Lending, LLCnonbank1062524778836112.24307457260.521812384538667.612286623735.402021-06-3047.80.1345
5505014PPPLF KABBAGEKabbage, Inc.nonbank1798183323050755.34188098216.271361622821666.001519227119.002020-08-3145.70.1238
5511912PPPLF MBE CAP PTNRS LLCMBE Capital Partnersnonbank36633822686411.2669826320.99128850824048.14728579526.132021-06-3088.60.0958
5514593PPPFL BSD CAPITALBSD Capital, LLC dba Lendistrynonbank2067243996635264.50521082199.42157590205797.00483433836.002021-07-3112.11.0779

First 15 of 15 rows · cells longer than 60 characters are cut with an ellipsis · shown as text, unformatted.

Files

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ppplf-fee-join-by-lender.csv
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152,434 B8653b459db3a417bb05bc6be6f9fda3850b7765a54679d267f92f8065b979aa4Download ↓
dictionary.csv
data dictionary, 13 rows
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Columns

ColumnType, measuredBlankDistinctRange / valuesMeaning
institution_rssdinteger0152.4M – 5.5M · median 5.5MFederal Reserve RSSD identifier of the PPPLF borrower.
institution_nametext015PPPLF HARVEST SMALL BUS FNC (1), CROSS RIVER BK (1), PPPLF THE LOAN SOURCE (1)Name as the Fed's disclosures print it.
originating_lendertext015Harvest Small Business Finance, LLC (1), Cross River Bank (1), Loan Source Incorporated (1)Name as the SBA loan-level file prints the originating lender.
lender_typetext02nonbank (11), bank (4)bank if the RSSD files an FFIEC call report at the peak quarter; nonbank otherwise.
ppp_loansinteger015192 – 478.9K · median 206.7KPPP loans originated under this name in the SBA loan-level file.
ppp_amount_usdnumber01522.4M – 12.9B · median 4.5BCurrent approval amount of those loans, dollars.
modeled_sba_fees_usdnumber015866.6K – 1.1B · median 521.1MSBA processing fees modeled on those loans, dollars.
ppplf_n_advancesinteger015120 – 1.1K · median 181Distinct PPPLF advances across the 70 disclosures.
ppplf_gross_advances_usdnumber015590.2M – 36.2B · median 4.9BOriginal amounts of those advances added up, dollars.
ppplf_peak_outstanding_usdnumber015483.4M – 11.5B · median 4.7BLargest PPPLF balance on any one report date, dollars.
ppplf_peak_datetext072021-06-30 (4), 2021-07-31 (4), 2021-04-30 (2)Report date of that peak.
peak_pct_of_ppp_amountnumber01512.10 – 40.9K · median 88.60Peak balance as a percentage of ppp_amount_usd, one decimal.
fees_per_dollar_peaknumber0150.00 – 1.08 · median 0.12modeled_sba_fees_usd divided by ppplf_peak_outstanding_usd, four decimals.

Type, blanks, distinct count, and range are measured on the file. The same table as CSV: dictionary.csv.

How to use it

Specific to this file, measured on it: keys, joins, encodings, units, and the values that will trip a naive count.

  • Fifteen rows, not the facility. The 787 PPPLF borrowers are in the combined table; these fifteen are the lenders with PPP origination records under their own names that the site's lender articles follow.
  • The ratio is a comparison, not a profit figure. Fees are origination-side and modeled; the Fed balance is at the pledging institution and may include loans bought from others.
  • Sorted by peak balance, largest first. Sort on fees_per_dollar_peak for the fee view: Lendistry, then Benworth, then Prestamos.
  • LF line endings, UTF-8, 2,434 bytes.

Before you quote a row

  • Modeled fees. The SBA schedule applied to loan amounts, not a ledger of fees the SBA paid; interest and forgiveness income are not in the table.
  • Purchased loans. The Loan Source, Itria and Kabbage rows carry Fed balances above their own originations; a share above 100% means pledged loans came from other originators.
  • Type by call report. MBE Capital Partners and Lendistry are nonbank by this test; Customers Bank, Cross River, Celtic and WebBank file call reports.
  • Peak dates differ. Each lender's peak is its own report date, from September 30, 2020 for Customers Bank to July 31, 2021 for Prestamos, Capital Plus, Benworth and Lendistry.
Cite this table. Name the source vintage; the numbers depend on it.PPPLF fee join: modeled SBA processing fees against peak Federal Reserve PPPLF funding, fifteen PPP lenders. Pandemic Darlings, https://pandemicdarlings.com/data/ppplf-fee-join-by-lender/, SHA-256 8653b459db3a417bb05bc6be6f9fda3850b7765a54679d267f92f8065b979aa4
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