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CDFI Program Geography Eligibility API and MCP server

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Official CDFI Fund NMTC, CDFI Investment Area, and BEA geography qualification screening.

CDFI Program Geography Eligibility is published by CDFI Fund geographic eligibility reports and covers United States census tracts and counties represented in each official table.

It refreshes on a schedule the publisher sets.

Last verified . That is when these facts were last rebuilt from the ParcelOps source registry, not when CDFI Fund geographic eligibility reports last refreshed the data itself.

API access

Your AI client reaches CDFI Program Geography Eligibility through one ParcelOps MCP endpoint, so there is no separate key to hold for it and no per-source client to write. Reaching it takes no credentials of your own.

Where it came from

Freshness and coverage

FreshnessScheduled · Qualification tables publish by program and Census vintage.
Places coveredUnited States census tracts and counties represented in each official table
Time coveredNot declared
CredentialsNo credentials required

What this source cannot tell you

  • Anything outside United States census tracts and counties represented in each official table. A request past that edge comes back empty rather than approximated.
  • Which years it spans, because the covered period is not declared.
  • Anything CDFI Fund geographic eligibility reports does not publish. ParcelOps returns this source as it stands and never fills a blank field from a different one.
  • This is preliminary geographic screening, not an award, certification, allocation, financing approval, or legal eligibility determination.
  • No matching row does not prove ineligibility; confirm the current program rules and Census vintage.

Methods (3)

A method is one call your agent can make against this source.

  • listQualificationDatasets

    read

    List current official CDFI Fund qualification files and their program vintages.

    Records returnedqualification-data-file
    How to get more resultsoffset (offsetField: offset, limitField: limit)
    FreshnessScheduled (source-level)
    Input schema
    {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "limit": {
          "type": "integer",
          "minimum": 1,
          "maximum": 100
        },
        "offset": {
          "type": "integer",
          "minimum": 0,
          "maximum": 50000
        }
      },
      "required": [],
      "additionalProperties": false
    }
  • checkEligibility

    read

    Screen one exact tract or county against a supported official CDFI Fund geography table.

    What you must provideprogram
    Records returnedprogram-qualification-geography
    How to get more resultsoffset (offsetField: offset, limitField: limit)
    FreshnessScheduled (source-level)
    Input schema
    {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "program": {
          "type": "string",
          "enum": [
            "nmtc",
            "cdfi",
            "bea",
            "NMTC",
            "CDFI",
            "BEA"
          ]
        },
        "tractGeoid": {
          "type": "string",
          "pattern": "^\\d{11}$"
        },
        "countyFips": {
          "type": "string",
          "pattern": "^\\d{5}$"
        },
        "vintage": {
          "type": "integer",
          "minimum": 2000,
          "maximum": 2100
        },
        "limit": {
          "type": "integer",
          "minimum": 1,
          "maximum": 100
        },
        "offset": {
          "type": "integer",
          "minimum": 0,
          "maximum": 50000
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "program"
      ],
      "additionalProperties": false
    }
    • Provide tractGeoid or countyFips; confirm current program rules independently.
  • getServiceInfo

    read

    Return programs, files, privacy policy, and non-approval limitations.

    FreshnessScheduled (source-level)
    Input schema
    {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {},
      "required": [],
      "additionalProperties": false
    }

Where this source is used