SBA Facts

• The SBA programs have helped nearly 20 million small businesses, both directly and indirectly since 1953.
  
  
• The SBA currently has a loan portfolio of nearly 219,000 outstanding loans worth more than $45 Billion.
  
  
• From 1991-2000, the SBA helped almost 435,000 businesses get their start with more than $94.6 Billion in loans – more money than in the entire history of the agency before 1991.