United Fund Advisors (UFA) provides low-cost, flexible debt and equity to businesses and organizations that are unable to secure traditional financing for their community development projects.
WE CREATE OPPORTUNITIES
Driven by our triple-bottom-line mission to create opportunities for profitable investments that enhance social and environmental yields, UFA works with partners to develop projects that deliver long-standing value to their communities. Working with community leaders, small business owners, grassroots and non-profit organizations, policymakers, financial advisors and investors, we structure financing for projects that deliver meaningful, measurable benefits to highly distressed communities.
United Fund Advisors, LLC (UFA) is a fund manager and financial services company that provides investment capital and advisory services for community development projects throughout the country. As a certified B Corporation with over $600 million of assets under management, all of UFA’s investments and services are driven by its triple-bottom-line mission “to create opportunities for profitable investments, which enhance social and environmental yields.”
UFA's investments have incorporated a wide array of alternative financing tools, including New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC), Renewable Energy Investment Tax Credits, Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credits and EB-5 capital. UFA provides NMTC financing through its National Community Fund I, LLC, which has received $687 million of NMTC allocation since its inception. The National Community Fund I, LLC, serves distressed communities across the United States.
UFA provides EB-5 financing through its EB-5 Opportunities Fund, LLC, which serves New York City and Newark. UFA provides equity and debt financing for small businesses through its small business loan funds. In addition, UFA provides financial advisory services to government agencies, CDFIs, developers and institutional investors.
