Cleveland, OH — PPP Loan Data

Cleveland, Ohio received 29,919 Paycheck Protection Program loans totaling $2.15B. The average loan in the city was $71,722 — above the national program average of approximately $67,000.

81.3% of loans in Cleveland — totaling $2.01B — received SBA forgiveness. Forgiveness required borrowers to demonstrate that funds were used for qualifying expenses and that they maintained employee headcount and compensation levels during the covered period.

Among the largest disclosed recipients in Cleveland were MIDDOUGH CONSULTING INC. ($10,000,000), MAZZELLA HOLDING COMPANY, INC. ($10,000,000), and MINUTE MEN INC ($10,000,000).

The most active industry sector in Cleveland was Personal Care Services with 4,113 loans worth $76.0M, followed by Services to Buildings and Dwellings (2,186 loans).

Applicants in Cleveland reported retaining 205,335 jobs through the program. These figures are self-reported and were not independently verified by the SBA. The majority of loans in this city — those under $150,000 — have borrower names withheld under FOIA Exemption 6.

Cleveland is part of Ohio, which received a total of thousands of PPP loans during the program period. City-level data is based on the borrower's self-reported city name; some variation in spelling may cause minor undercounting. See the methodology page for more detail on data limitations.