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Data: SBA FOIA 7(a) public dataset, FY1991–FY2026. Funding rate = funded/approved (declined applications not in FOIA data). Default rate = SBA-purchased (charged off plus purchased-but-not-yet-charged-off) / funded; charge-off rate counts only the charged-off subset. Recent vintages read low on both because loans have not aged into default yet. Deal type filter scoped to FY2020–present — pre-2020 records use legacy business-age labels that don’t match the current taxonomy. All other filters span FY1991–2026. Avg rate (optional column) is FY2020+ only and approximate (stored at whole-number precision). Not affiliated with the U.S. SBA.
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