Research and Insights

Research and Insights

SpringFour Partner of the Month: Golden 1 Credit Union

We’re excited to kick off our new Partner of the Month series by highlighting a standout organization delivering meaningful financial health support and driving real business impact: Golden 1 Credit Union. Through its partnership with SpringFour, Golden 1 demonstrates how prioritizing member wellbeing deepens trust and engagement and reinforces long-term loyalty.

2025 Annual Impact Report: Delivering Critical Business Results, Answering Pressing Financial Health Needs

2025 was a year of results for SpringFour and the partners who trust us to deliver financial health solutions when it matters most. Through student loan resumptions, a federal government shutdown, rising foreclosures, and climbing household debt, SpringFour remained laser-focused on our mission: connecting people and organizations to the resources that solve real financial challenges.

10 ways SpringFour’s Partnerships Led to Stronger Client Portfolios in 2025

Using SpringFour at key moments in the customer journey increases customer engagement, drives repayments, and delivers measurable ROI. There are many ways you can integrate SpringFour into your existing business practices to drive positive outcomes and reduce delinquencies for your customers and your business. Learn how in this blog.

How a Government Shutdown Impacts Your Customers

While the government is shut down, hundreds of thousands of federal employees and active-duty military are furloughed, required to work without pay, or will not receive paychecks until the government reopens. With the government shutdown, your customers will need your support and look to you for guidance. With more than 25,000 vetted, local financial health resources that can make a difference for consumers, our solutions connect people in real time to trusted help.

Delinquency rates could get worse. Here’s a win-win solution

Using SpringFour at key moments in the customer journey increases customer engagement, drives repayments, and delivers measurable ROI. There are many ways you can integrate SpringFour into your existing business practices to drive positive outcomes and reduce delinquencies for your customers and your business. Learn how in this blog.

How you can help customers navigate federal spending cuts

With the recently passed Big Beautiful Bill and potential cuts to programs in the federal fiscal year budget 2026, millions of Americans are navigating massive changes to essential programs, including cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. To meet this moment, SpringFour has expanded its resource offerings to ensure families can access support available from trusted organizations.

Just released: Q2 Impact Report

As Americans face growing financial stress — from shifting benefits to record debt — SpringFour is meeting the moment. Read our Q2 Impact Report for insights into today’s financial health challenges, how leading organizations are driving impact with SpringFour, and the growing demand for real-time support.

What consumers want isn’t a budgeting tool — it’s an immediate path toward financial health

Real financial health requires more than advice — it requires access. J.D. Power’s latest Financial Health and Advice Satisfaction Study shows what consumers want and need from their financial organizations today. Learn how SpringFour connects people to trusted, nonprofit and government resources that help lower household expenses in areas like food, utilities, employment, and healthcare to provide immediate, actionable support, embedded into the banks and lenders that customers already trust.

SpringFour’s Q1 2025 Results Are In

At SpringFour, our mission has always been clear: boost your business by connecting people to the trusted financial health resources they need. This quarter, we delivered over 1.8 million referrals to individuals and families nationwide, helping them save on essentials like food, utilities, and housing — and empowering them to stay resilient in the face of growing financial pressures. This quarter also brought important milestones, from our expanded resource offerings and new integration with C&R Software’s Debt Manager, to partnerships that are helping organizations like MSUFCU, Enact, and Propel Holdings meet customers where they are.

Why Making Consumer Needs a Cornerstone of Your Business Matters

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, companies that prioritize meeting consumer needs aren’t just making a difference in their communities—they’re also strengthening their brand, building customer loyalty, and enhancing their bottom line. One of the most meaningful ways businesses can meet consumer needs is by providing financial health resources to their customers. Doing so not only makes positive contributions to society, but is also proven to drive business results.

SpringFour Partner of the Month: Golden 1 Credit Union

We’re excited to kick off our new Partner of the Month series by highlighting a standout organization delivering meaningful financial health support and driving real business impact: Golden 1 Credit Union. Through its partnership with SpringFour, Golden 1 demonstrates how prioritizing member wellbeing deepens trust and engagement and reinforces long-term loyalty.

2025 Annual Impact Report: Delivering Critical Business Results, Answering Pressing Financial Health Needs

2025 was a year of results for SpringFour and the partners who trust us to deliver financial health solutions when it matters most. Through student loan resumptions, a federal government shutdown, rising foreclosures, and climbing household debt, SpringFour remained laser-focused on our mission: connecting people and organizations to the resources that solve real financial challenges.

10 ways SpringFour’s Partnerships Led to Stronger Client Portfolios in 2025

Using SpringFour at key moments in the customer journey increases customer engagement, drives repayments, and delivers measurable ROI. There are many ways you can integrate SpringFour into your existing business practices to drive positive outcomes and reduce delinquencies for your customers and your business. Learn how in this blog.

How a Government Shutdown Impacts Your Customers

While the government is shut down, hundreds of thousands of federal employees and active-duty military are furloughed, required to work without pay, or will not receive paychecks until the government reopens. With the government shutdown, your customers will need your support and look to you for guidance. With more than 25,000 vetted, local financial health resources that can make a difference for consumers, our solutions connect people in real time to trusted help.

Delinquency rates could get worse. Here’s a win-win solution

Using SpringFour at key moments in the customer journey increases customer engagement, drives repayments, and delivers measurable ROI. There are many ways you can integrate SpringFour into your existing business practices to drive positive outcomes and reduce delinquencies for your customers and your business. Learn how in this blog.

How you can help customers navigate federal spending cuts

With the recently passed Big Beautiful Bill and potential cuts to programs in the federal fiscal year budget 2026, millions of Americans are navigating massive changes to essential programs, including cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. To meet this moment, SpringFour has expanded its resource offerings to ensure families can access support available from trusted organizations.

Just released: Q2 Impact Report

As Americans face growing financial stress — from shifting benefits to record debt — SpringFour is meeting the moment. Read our Q2 Impact Report for insights into today’s financial health challenges, how leading organizations are driving impact with SpringFour, and the growing demand for real-time support.

What consumers want isn’t a budgeting tool — it’s an immediate path toward financial health

Real financial health requires more than advice — it requires access. J.D. Power’s latest Financial Health and Advice Satisfaction Study shows what consumers want and need from their financial organizations today. Learn how SpringFour connects people to trusted, nonprofit and government resources that help lower household expenses in areas like food, utilities, employment, and healthcare to provide immediate, actionable support, embedded into the banks and lenders that customers already trust.

SpringFour’s Q1 2025 Results Are In

At SpringFour, our mission has always been clear: boost your business by connecting people to the trusted financial health resources they need. This quarter, we delivered over 1.8 million referrals to individuals and families nationwide, helping them save on essentials like food, utilities, and housing — and empowering them to stay resilient in the face of growing financial pressures. This quarter also brought important milestones, from our expanded resource offerings and new integration with C&R Software’s Debt Manager, to partnerships that are helping organizations like MSUFCU, Enact, and Propel Holdings meet customers where they are.

Why Making Consumer Needs a Cornerstone of Your Business Matters

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, companies that prioritize meeting consumer needs aren’t just making a difference in their communities—they’re also strengthening their brand, building customer loyalty, and enhancing their bottom line. One of the most meaningful ways businesses can meet consumer needs is by providing financial health resources to their customers. Doing so not only makes positive contributions to society, but is also proven to drive business results.

A Chicago Fintech Financial Health Collaboration: SpringFour and Enova Case Study

A Chicago Fintech Financial Health Collaboration: SpringFour and Enova Case Study

Enova and SpringFour are Chicago-based fintechs working together to improve families’ financial health. The two companies began to explore a partnership in October of 2019, and by the spring of 2020, Enova had launched SpringFour resources via S4direct to its CashNetUSA and NetCredit brands. Read the case study to find out more about how this partnership helped customers through the COVID crisis and beyond.

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Annual Report 2020

Annual Report 2020

SpringFour today announced that it delivered almost 3.3 million financial health referrals to Americans in need in 2020. SpringFour increased its support with 37% more resources available and 21% more cities covered, and increased its subscribers by 43%, which included 44% more banking and lending clients including Avant, Elevate, Enova, and two of the top 10 U.S. banks and others, and 25% more nonprofit clients.

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In Our Clients’ Words: SpringFour User Survey Results

In Our Clients’ Words: SpringFour User Survey Results

Each year, SpringFour surveys the users of its S4pro tool – agents and counselors who use S4pro to provide vetted financial resources to customers in need. The survey helps us get a finger on the impact our referral tool has on our clients’ business, their employees working directly with consumers in need of financial assistance, and customer outcomes. Among other insights, the survey shows that SpringFour has become an integral piece of many companies’ COVID-19 response strategies.

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The Looming Crisis of Healthcare Inaccessibility During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Looming Crisis of Healthcare Inaccessibility During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Read insights from SpringFour’s VP of Impact and Research, Katy Jacob, on an impending crisis in access to healthcare that would impact up to a third of the country. Healthcare costs and access impact every aspect of Americans’ financial health, and here at SpringFour, we have seen first-hand how the COVID-19 pandemic has led to the increased need for additional healthcare savings resources for families.

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Foreclosures in the U.S.: The Calm Before the Storm?

Foreclosures in the U.S.: The Calm Before the Storm?

Economists and housing specialists are closely watching the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on current and impending foreclosure rates. Certain regions of the country are more at risk than others, with areas along the West Coast, clustered around New York,...

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