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Emergency Capital Investment Program

Program Information

Popular name

ECIP

Program Number

21.030

Program objective

Under the ECIP, Treasury invested $8,570,109,000 in capital directly in 175 credit unions, insured depository institutions, and bank or savings and loan holding companies that are certified Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) or minority depository institutions (MDIs) to, among other things, provide loans, grants, and forbearance for small businesses, minority-owned businesses, and consumers, especially in low-income and underserved communities that may have been disproportionately impacted by the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The ECIP is not a grant program. The ECIP is a direct investment program comprising the purchase of preferred stock or subordinated debt instruments from eligible financial institutions. No new awards are being made but existing projects are still active.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2024

    Data from the first 18 months of the implementation of the program demonstrate that community financial institutions participating in ECIP were well-positioned to deliver loans and other resources, at scale, to financially underserved communities that were particularly impacted by the pandemic. In approximately 18 months, ECIP participants originated a total of $58.3 billion in loans, of which more than one third was to the most underserved borrowers. Approximately three quarters, or $43.0 billion, of these originations was qualified lending to targeted communities. More than one third of these total originations, or $20.6 billion, was deep impact lending to the most underserved borrowers. For more information, please see https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/ECIP-2023-Report-Final-07.12.24.pdf.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

Regulation: 31 CFR Part 35; Guidelines: Application materials and other materials on the ECIP website.

  1. Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, Division N, Title V, 522.

Program details

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments
  • Local
  • U.S. Territories

Additional resources