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Tompkins Community Bank

NY · lends in 3 states · 527 SBA loans since 2010, 113 in the last five years.

Smallest loan they do
$20k
5th percentile, last 5 years
Typical loan
$135k
median, last 5 years
Typical rate
P+1.34
variable-rate loans only
Typical term
10 yr
Recent volume
$29.5M
last 5 fiscal years

Will they talk to you?

loan sizes funded
Under $150k
58%
$150k – $350k
27%
$350k – $750k
9%
$750k – $2M
4%
Over $2M
2%

The spread of loan sizes tells you where this lender is comfortable. Ask for something far outside it and expect friction.

Do they fund businesses like yours?

last 5 years
Full-Service Restaurants
6%
Landscaping Services
4%
Limited-Service Restaurants
4%
New Single-Family Housing Construction (except For-Sale Builders)
4%
Commercial Printing (except Screen and Books)
3%
Everything else
80%

A lender who already knows your industry asks better questions and closes faster. One who doesn't will treat your file as an education.

Middle of the road on risk

1.84% charged off, close to the 2.11% across all SBA lending. Neither unusually tight nor unusually loose.

What rate people got

average markup over prime

Borrowers here averaged prime + 1.34%. Compare that against what you have been quoted — the markup is the negotiable part, and most borrowers never try.

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Their loans, year by year

cumulative % of dollars charged off
ApprovedYr 1Yr 2Yr 3Yr 4Yr 5Yr 6Yr 7Yr 8Yr 9Yr 10
20100.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
20110.00.00.01.78.69.09.09.09.09.0
20120.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
20130.00.00.00.00.50.50.50.50.50.5
20140.00.00.40.46.26.26.26.26.26.2
20150.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
20160.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0·
20170.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0··
20180.00.00.00.00.00.00.0···
20190.00.00.00.00.00.0····
20200.00.00.00.01.1·····
20210.00.00.03.7······
20240.0·········
2025··········
0%
12%+▨ too recent to know

Each row is one year's lending. Read down a column to compare years at the same age — that is the only fair comparison, because losses take three to five years to appear and a fast-growing lender always looks clean on a raw average.

Source SBA 7(a) FOIAReleased 2026-06-30 Loans judged 378 Measured at 5 years

What this page cannot tell you

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