What this page covers

The periodic returns that federally insured, natural-person credit unions and credit union service organisations (CUSOs) file with NCUA through its own online reporting systems, as NCUA's Regulatory Reporting hub page lists them: the quarterly 5300 Call Report and the Credit Union Profile (NCUA Form 4501A), both filed through CUOnline, and the CUSO Registry's own reporting by credit union service organisations. Left out: the monthly 5310 Call Report and Corporate Profile that the small, separate population of corporate credit unions files through Corporate Credit Union Online; the Suspicious Activity Report, which the hub page links to but which is actually filed with FinCEN, not NCUA; the Data Exchange Application (DEXA), a data-import tool for loan and share data rather than a return in its own right; and NCUA's "Collection of Examination and Supervision Information," which describes how NCUA handles data gathered during examinations rather than a return credit unions file on a schedule. Checked and also left out: the low-income credit union designation (NCUA determines eligibility from examination data, or a credit union may make a one-off member-data submission, neither of which is a scheduled filing) and the annual fidelity bond and insurance coverage review (an internal board-level review; the one figure NCUA actually collects, maximum fidelity bond coverage for a single loss, is a field on the quarterly Profile, not a separate return). Source

How firms file

CUOnline
NCUA's web-based application for natural-person credit unions and state credit union supervisors to enter, certify and submit the Credit Union Profile and the quarterly 5300 Call Report. It uses NCUA Connect for multifactor sign-in and works in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari (not Internet Explorer); Call Report data can also be imported as XML built to NCUA's published schema for the cycle. Source
CUSO Registry
The online application (cusoregistry.ncua.gov) through which credit union service organisations submit their required operational and financial information to NCUA, and through which the public can search basic information about registered CUSOs. Source
NCUA Connect & Admin Portal
The common sign-in and administration point for CUOnline, the CUSO Registry and NCUA's other online applications; administrators add users in the Admin Portal, and NCUA Connect carries user guides and FAQs. Source
Corporate Credit Union Online
The separate system corporate credit unions, a small population distinct from the natural-person credit unions covered here, use to submit their own monthly 5310 Call Report and Corporate Profile. Source

The returns (3)

Plain name first, the NCUA's code in brackets. Each return has its own page: what it is for, who files it, the deadline, the templates, the validation rules, the documents and the sources.

Return	Group	How often	Format	Status
Quarterly call report (NCUA 5300)	Group: Financial statements (Call Report)	How often: Quarterly	Format: XML, Web form	In force
Credit union profile (NCUA 4501A)	Group: Operational information	How often: Quarterly	Format: Web form	In force
Credit union service organization (CUSO) report (CUSO Registry report)	Group: CUSOs	How often: Yearly	Format: Web form	In force

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Data the NCUA publishes from the returns

Call Report Quarterly Data (all natural person credit unions)
Firm by firm · CSV (zip)
Every data item for every credit union, by quarter, back to March 1994, as compressed comma-delimited text files, one zip per cycle; NCUA calls this "final data." Source
From: NCUA 5300
Reuse: No reuse terms stated on this page; see the licence section.
5300 Call Report Aggregate Financial Performance Reports (FPRs)
Added up across firms · Excel (zip)
Each quarter's aggregate Financial Performance Reports (key ratios, delinquent loan information, loan losses, real estate loans, commercial loans, investments) for all federal credit unions and all federally insured, state-chartered credit unions, as an Excel workbook inside a zip file, back to 2011 on this page. Source
From: NCUA 5300
Reuse: No reuse terms stated on this page; see the licence section.
Financial Performance Reports for Credit Unions
Firm by firm · Web application
An individual credit union's financial summary (assets, liabilities and capital, income and expense) that can be requested once that credit union's Call Report data is submitted and validated; peer averages and the aggregate reports for the latest cycle are normally available within six to eight weeks of the cycle date. Source
From: NCUA 5300
Reuse: No reuse terms stated on this page.
Recently Updated Call Reports
Firm by firm · Web application
A search tool for Call Report filings that NCUA has updated in the last 90 days, by credit union or group of credit unions. Source
From: NCUA 5300
Reuse: No reuse terms stated on this page.
Custom Query
Firm by firm · Web application
A query builder that lets a user select the financial information collected during a chosen Call Report cycle. Source
From: NCUA 5300
Reuse: No reuse terms stated on this page.
List of Active Federally Insured Credit Unions
Firm by firm · Excel (zip)
A spreadsheet listing every active federally insured credit union as of the end of the most recent quarter, with membership, assets and loans. Source
From: NCUA 5300
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Credit Union Locator
Firm by firm · Web application
A map and search tool for finding a credit union by address, name or charter number; it shows a site's location once the Profile marks it with a public-facing function. Source
From: NCUA 4501A
Reuse: No reuse terms found; the application itself could not be fetched this session (see gaps).
CUSO Registry search
Firm by firm · Web application
A public search of registered CUSOs: legal name and trade names, NCUA registry number, services offered, address, and any public website or phone number the CUSO has provided. Source
From: CUSO Registry report
Reuse: No reuse terms stated on this page.
CUSOs at a Glance
Added up across firms · PDF
An annually updated summary of CUSO services and locations across the whole registry, published as one PDF per year since 2015. Source
From: CUSO Registry report
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What could not be verified

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cusoregistry.ncua.gov could not be reached: two attempts, each through scripts/polite.py (which itself retries a failed connection), both ended in "Connection reset by peer." Not retried further under the rule against retrying a connection failure. The CUSO Registry's own Help section, Quick Guides and User Manual, which might describe field-level edit rules and the exact fields on screen, were not read; the CUSO Registry return instead relies on the ncua.gov overview page and on 12 CFR 712.3(d) for what a CUSO must report.
fpr.ncua.gov (the individual Financial Performance Report application) and mapping.ncua.gov/ResearchCreditUnion (the Credit Union Locator/Research a Credit Union tool) both timed out when fetched directly ("Operation timed out"), not a block or a challenge page. Not retried further. What each tool does is taken from the ncua.gov pages that describe and link them, not from the tools themselves.
ecfr.gov answered every request with a redirect to a CAPTCHA page (unblock.federalregister.gov) on 2026-11-13 and was not worked round. The legal text of 12 CFR parts 741 and 712 was instead read from govinfo.gov's 2025 annual edition PDF of each part (the 2026 annual edition was not available there when checked); several guessed govinfo.gov URL patterns for a single CFR section as its own HTML page (for example a "sec741-6.htm" or "part741.htm" page) returned "Page Not Found" before the whole-part PDF pattern was found to work, so 741.6 and 712.3 are cited to the whole-part PDF rather than a page for the single section.
Checked and found no evidence that the low-income credit union designation (12 CFR 701.34) is itself a periodic return: NCUA's own low-income designation page states that NCUA determines eligibility from member data gathered during examinations, and that a credit union may instead make a one-off member-data submission if it believes it qualifies. Neither is a scheduled filing, so it is not included as a return here.
Checked and found no evidence that the annual fidelity bond and insurance coverage review (12 CFR part 713) is itself a periodic filing to NCUA: the 4501A Profile FAQs page describes it as a board-level review, and the one figure actually reported to NCUA, the maximum fidelity bond coverage for a single loss, is a field on the quarterly Credit Union Profile rather than a separate return.
No comprehensive master list of every NCUA reporting requirement was found; coverage here follows what the Regulatory Reporting hub page, the CUOnline and CUSO Registry pages, and the Call Report and Profile instructions describe. The monthly 5310 Call Report and Corporate Profile that corporate credit unions file through Corporate Credit Union Online are confirmed by 12 CFR 741.6(a)(2) and the Corporate Credit Union Online page as genuine periodic returns, but are left out of the scope here because corporate credit unions are a small, separate population from the natural-person credit unions covered here.
The contents of the Call Report Import File Test Utility (cuonline.ncua.gov/importtest) and the exact screens of CUOnline, Corporate Credit Union Online and the CUSO Registry itself (all behind sign-in) were not read; what they do is taken from the ncua.gov pages that describe them.

Sources

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