Coronavirus Relief Loans In Bethesda Area: Where PPP Money Went

BETHESDA, MD — Thousands of organizations in Maryland received loans through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), including some in the Bethesda-Chevy Chase area. Businesses affected by the coronavirus pandemic were able to apply for the federal funds to help keep employees on the payroll.

That money has supported 51.1 million jobs — as much as 84 percent of America's small business employees — according to the U.S. Treasury.

Here are some businesses in the Bethesda-Chevy Chase area that received PPP loans:

$2-5 million

• Barbaricum LLC
  • Location: Chevy Chase
  • Jobs Retained: 176
• Coakley & Williams Construction Inc.
  • Location: Bethesda
  • Jobs Retained: 126
• Country Day School of the Sacred Heart Inc.
  • Location: Bethesda
  • Jobs Retained: 259
• Euro Motorcars Bethesda, LLC
  • Location: Bethesda
  • Jobs Retained: 196

• Human Service Group, Inc.
  • Location: Chevy Chase
  • Jobs Retained: 11
• National 4-H Council
  • Location: Chevy Chase
  • Jobs Retained: 100
• Ourisman Bethesda Inc.
  • Location: Bethesda
  • Jobs Retained: 129
• Rochambeau, The French International School of Washington, DC
  • Location: Bethesda
  • Jobs Retained: 265
• Washington Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine PA
  • Location: Chevy Chase
  • Jobs Retained: 90

$1-2 million

• Cabarrus Eye Center, PA
  • Location: Chevy Chase
  • Jobs Retained: 94
• Jackson Metro LLC
  • Location: Chevy Chase
  • Jobs Retained: 240
• Jim Coleman Automotive of Bethesda
  • Location: Chevy Chase
  • Jobs Retained: 129

• Kenwood Golf and Country Club
  • Location: Bethesda
  • Jobs Retained: 121
• Polinger Company
  • Location: Chevy Chase
  • Jobs Retained: 70
• Pollin Miller Hospitality Strategies Inc.
  • Location: Chevy Chase
  • Jobs Retained: 72
• Potomac Physician Associates PC
  • Location: Chevy Chase
  • Jobs Retained: 95
• The Children in the Shoe, Inc.
  • Location: Chevy Chase
  • Jobs Retained: 214
• The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc
  • Location: North Bethesda
  • Jobs Retained: 65
• Washington Episcopal School
  • Location: Bethesda
  • Jobs Retained: 0
• Zuckerman Gravely Management, Inc.
  • Location: Chevy Chase
  • Jobs Retained: 0

$350,000 - 1 million

• A Wider Circle Inc.
  • Location: Bethesda
  • Jobs Retained: 69
• Amalgamated Casualty Insurance Company
  • Location: Chevy Chase
  • Jobs Retained: 24
• American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine
  • Location: Bethesda
  • Jobs Retained: 37
• Artery Capital Group LLC
  • Location: Chevy Chase
  • Jobs Retained: 18
• Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States, Inc.
  • Location: Chevy Chase
  • Jobs Retained: 42
• Bethesda Chevy Chase Surgery Center
  • Location: Bethesda
  • Jobs Retained: 21
• Carriage Hill Bethesda
  • Location: Bethesda
  • Jobs Retained: 94
• Concord Hill School Inc.
  • Location: Chevy Chase
  • Jobs Retained: 27
• Guapo's Bethesda Inc.
  • Location: Bethesda
  • Jobs Retained: 0
• Howard Insurance Agency Inc.
  • Location: Chevy Chase
  • Jobs Retained: 29
• Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic, Inc.
  • Location: Bethesda
  • Jobs Retained: 33
• Metropolitan Medical Partners, LLC
  • Location: Chevy Chase
  • Jobs Retained: 40
• OHR Kodesh Congregation
  • Location: Chevy Chase
  • Jobs Retained: 38
• Sushiko
  • Location: Chevy Chase
  • Jobs Retained: 50
• The Oneness Family School Inc.
  • Location: Chevy Chase
  • Jobs Retained: 39
• Washington Eye Physicians & Surgeons PC
  • Location: Chevy Chase
  • Jobs Retained: 53

$150,000 - $350,000

• Bethesda Bagels Inc.
  • Location: Bethesda
  • Jobs Retained: 28
• Bethesda Diner, Inc.
  • Location: Bethesda
  • Jobs Retained: 46
• Bethesda Physical Therapy, LLC
  • Location: Bethesda
  • Jobs Retained: 14
• Bruno Brown Plastic Surgery
  • Location: Chevy Chase
  • Jobs Retained: 12
• Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church
  • Location: Bethesda
  • Jobs Retained: 16
• Freed Photography, Inc.
  • Location: Bethesda
  • Jobs Retained: 23
• Jennifer Gilmer Kitchen & Bath LTD
  • Location: Chevy Chase
  • Jobs Retained: 13
• Kenwood Animal Hospital, Inc.
  • Location: Bethesda
  • Jobs Retained: 28
• Temple Shalom
  • Location: Chevy Chase
  • Jobs Retained: 58

Here is a searchable database of Maryland businesses that received PPP loans over $150,000.

PPP loans were established as part of the federal government's CARES Act and are similar to grants.

According to the Small Business Administration, PPP loans have an interest rate of 1 percent and can be fully forgiven if used for payroll costs, interest on mortgages, rent and utilities.

Patch editors Rich Scinto and David Copeland contributed to this report.