Businesses can apply from any industry EXCEPT the following, which are ineligible:
- Adult entertainment including strip clubs, escort services, adult bookstores, and businesses whose principal business is the sale of pornography
- Tobacco stores, smoke shops, cigarette & cigar retailers and wholesalers, cigarette stands
- Firearms sellers, merchants, retailers, or wholesalers; ammunition sales; gun clubs; shooting ranges
- Marijuana related businesses; cannabis dispensaries, marijuana crop farming, edibles
- Massage parlors, saunas, or hot tub facilities
- Illegal activities
- Gambling and betting activities, racetracks
- Real estate investment companies (residential and commercial), house flippers, hotels, businesses whose principal source of revenue is rental income
- Banking and financial institutions; central banking; other monetary intermediation; trusts, funds, and similar financial entities
- Merchant service companies, merchant sales organizations, payment services
- Lending businesses; payday lenders, title lenders, other credit granting
- Small Business loan brokers
- Check cashers
- Bail bonds
- Pawn shops
- Collection companies/lawyers or debt consolidation firms
- Multi–level marketing companies or businesses based on pyramid sales plans
- Nonprofit organizations
- Religious organizations, churches, temples, mosques and shrines and other services provided specifically for the religious community
- Activities of political organizations
- Transportation of hazardous materials
- Oil and gas exploration/securities
- Rideshare (i.e. Uber/Lyft drivers)
