Community Development Financial Institutions Fund

03/17/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 03/17/2026 10:41

Reminder: March 2026 Annual Compliance, Certification and Reporting Obligations

Reminder: March 2026 Annual Compliance, Certification and Reporting Obligations

Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Are you the Authorized Representative of either a Certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) or an organization that has received a Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) Award and/or Allocation? If so, to ensure compliance with your Award, Assistance and/or Allocation Agreement(s), you must complete and submit the annual report(s) specified in these agreement(s). Additionally, to maintain your organization's CDFI Certification status all Certified CDFIs still must submit an Annual Certification and Data Collection Report (ACR).

The due dates to submit annual compliance report(s) vary by fiscal year end date, type of Award, and by the specific terms within each organization's individual Award, Assistance and/or Allocation Agreement(s). The due date for Certified CDFIs to submit the ACR also varies by fiscal year end date.

This reminder is specifically for organizations with Award, Assistance and/or Allocation Agreement(s), which have an upcoming report(s) due by March 31, 2026. At this time, the due dates for the ACR for the 2026 Reporting Round are still under development.

How to Check Your Report Due Date(s)

  • CDFI Fund Award Recipients and/or Allocatees: The due date(s) for your organization's required report(s) can be found in the Award, Assistance or Allocation Agreement(s) and on the Reporting Schedule in AMIS.
  • All Certified CDFIs: The due date(s) for your organization's ACR can be found in the ACR Reporting Schedule in AMIS.

Submission of the CDFI/NACA/ERP Transaction Level Report and the CDFI Certification Application

The CDFI Fund is reminding all Award Recipients with a Transaction Level Report (TLR) submission requirement that the full-length TLR-which must be submitted as a requirement of their Assistance Agreement-is the same TLR that will be used to assess Target Market activity under the revised CDFI Certification Application. Therefore, the full-length TLR's "Designated Target Market Type" data field should be completed using any Target Market types for which the Award Recipient is currently approved to use, as well as any that are proposed in the revised CDFI Certification Application submission. DO NOT ENTER A VALUE FOR THE "DESIGNATED TARGET MARKET TYPE" DATA FIELD THAT YOU DO NOT HAVE PROPOSED OR APPROVED ACCOUNTABILITY TOWARDS IN THE CDFI CERTIFICATION APPLICATION.

Certified CDFIs should submit only one TLR to the CDFI Fund. The CDFI Fund will use that TLR for CDFI Certification and compliance purposes (if applicable) for the relevant fiscal year. No CDFI should submit both a certified abbreviated TLR and a certified full-length TLR to the CDFI Fund for the same fiscal year's activities.

Regardless of the TLR version, every organization should follow four basic steps before submitting their TLR: (1) Enter or upload all their transactions for the respective fiscal year to the relevant objects in AMIS (CDFI TLR, Loan Purchase, Consumer Loan, Financial Services, Address); (2) Run the Target Market Calculator; (3) Review the results of the Target Market Calculator and make any necessary changes to your transactions for example address updates or designated Target Market type tag corrections; and (4) Certify the TLR.

Please check out the CDFI Certification section of the CDFI Fund's website for any updates that would affect whether a Financial Product and a Financial Service can be included in the Target Market Calculator and how a transaction should be tagged for specific Target Market types.

Annual Certification and Data Collection Report Deadline Reminder
The CDFI Fund has not populated the 2026 ACR Reporting Schedule in AMIS. Once the population is complete, the CDFI Fund will provide guidance to all Certified CDFIs on their ACR submission deadlines, as well as which version of the ACR to use including groups certified after December 7, 2023. This guidance will also address the steps that organizations certified after December 7, 2023, must take for completion of their 2025 ACR Reporting Schedule in AMIS. The CDFI Fund will send an email to your organization's key contacts alerting them to when the ACR is available and your submission deadline.

The AMIS ACR Reporting Schedule displays the due date for the ACR based on the organization's fiscal year end. The ACR Reporting Schedule section is located at the bottom of the Certification Related page in AMIS. Additional information on the AMIS Reporting Schedule can be found in the AMIS Training Manual - Annual Certification and Data Collection Report available on the CDFI Fund's website. Be sure to check that your organization's fiscal year end is correct on its AMIS Organizational Detail Page.

For certain regulated financial institutions, remember that the ACR's financial data section will not be pre-populated with the regulator call report data until your regulator releases it to the public. The CDFI Fund will send an email to your organization's key contacts alerting them when the call report data has been added to AMIS. Once someone in your organization has received the email, your organization can complete the ACR financial data section and submit its ACR. PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT YOUR ACR BEFORE THE FINANCIAL DATA SECTION PRE-POPULATION OCCURS!

Advise the CDFI Fund of Material Events

As specified in the terms of your organization's CDFI Certification, Award, Assistance and/or Allocation Agreement(s), please remember that your organization is required to advise the CDFI Fund of an occurrence of a Material Event, which should be submitted via a Service Request initiated in your organization's AMIS account. Please refer to the link titled "Material Events" under the "For More Information" section below to access updated guidance documents for submitting the Certification of Material Events Form.

CDFI Fund Recipients with active Awards or Allocations are required to submit a Material Events form (including all supporting documentation) within 30 days, or as specified in their Award, Assistance and/or Allocation Agreement(s), of the occurrence of a Material Event.

The CDFI Fund is reminding all Certified CDFIs, Certified CDEs, as well as program Recipients and/or Allocatees to review their recent organizational history to determine if a Material Events form should be submitted. Certified CDFIs that do not have an Award, Assistance and/or Allocation Agreement should report changes in their organization's fiscal year end through the AMIS Service Request portal.

Submission of Audit Confirmation Requests

Hard copy submissions of CDFI audit confirmation requests for information should no longer be mailed to the CDFI Fund. CDFI Recipient auditors should now submit all audit confirmation requests via email to [email protected]. This includes but is not limited to verifications, validations, and confirmation of balances of financial assistance received from the CDFI Fund.

The CDFI Fund will respond to all audit confirmation requests by email only. As such, requests must include an email address and instructions of where the CDFI Fund should deliver the requested information. Questions regarding the process for submitting audit confirmation requests can also be submitted via email at [email protected].

For More Information

The CDFI Fund has developed training materials to help users better navigate AMIS. All AMIS training manuals and information can be found on the AMIS Training Materials page at https://amis.cdfifund.gov/Training.

Information and instructions on submitting annual compliance and certification reports, as well as Material Events forms can be found on the CDFI Fund's website at the following links:

If you have questions about the annual compliance and certification reports, or Material Events please submit a Service Request via your organization's AMIS account. For more information about the CDFI Fund and its programs, please visit https://www.cdfifund.gov.

Organizations are encouraged to review the revised Certification Application, ACR and TLR information on the CDFI Fund's website to understand the scope of changes and new process requirements, for future reference.

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