If you haven't already applied for federal small business relief, you're probably out of luck on this round — but you still have a few other options.

• The US government added a second round of $310 billion to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
• But small business owners who haven't applied for PPP loans yet, may be too late to receive any funding.
• Bankers, lawyers, and consultants said the volume of already approved loans will be enough to tap out the second round of funding.
• If you don't get government loans and funding, there are still a few other options available to small businesses.
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If you were hoping to get your loan application into the second round of stimulus funding for small businesses, the chances are stacked against you. But you could turn to tax relief or private companies, local governments, and organizations offering grants and resources to small businesses hurt by the pandemic.

Late last week, the government added a second round of funding to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), after the first round depleted within two weeks. But experts say the new $310 billion cash infusion will most likely go to the applications that are already waiting in the pipeline from the first round, rather than new applicants.

On Monday, the day round two opened up, hundreds of thousands of PPP applications were already waiting to be processed or submitted to the Small Business Administration (SBA).

Backlogs will quickly tap out the second round

During the first phase of the lending program, loans were given at rates of more than $3 billion per hour. Less than 3% of the expected 60 million PPP applicants were approved before the first round of funds were exhausted.

On Monday morning, SBA Administrator Jovita Carranza announced on Twitter that more than $2 billion of the first round of funding was either declined or returned and will be added to the total funding for the second round.

Since the first round of funding left an enormous backlog of applications, bankers, lawyers, and consultants told Business Insider that the volume of already approved loans will be enough to tap out the second round of funding. Banking-industry experts said the program needed about $1 trillion more in funding to meet the demand.

Senator Marco Rubio said in a Twitter video that no lender will be able to allocate more than 10% of the total amount that's been appropriated for the program.

JPMorgan had at least 150,000 applications processed and ready to submit to the SBA, a person familiar with the matter previously told BI.

Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan appeared on CBS Face the Nation on Sunday and he said the company had "several hundred thousand" businesses to put into the next round of funding.

New disaster loan applications are not being accepted

As of Monday April 27, the SBA stated on its website that it will continue to process existing Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) applications on a first-come-first-serve basis, but that it's unable to accept new applications.

The SBA's disaster loans aren't new, but the CARES Act greatly expanded who is eligible and total funding available. The first round allocated $17 billion and the second round allocated another $60 billion.

When the CARES Act was initially signed, any EIDL applicant was eligible to receive a $10,000 cash advance, even if they weren't ultimately approved for the loan. But once the program rolled out, the SBA limited the advance to $1,000 per employee not to exceed $10,000 per company.

Several Democratic legislators including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer have urged the SBA and Treasury to reverse this limitation with the new funding and give every business the full $10,000.

What to do if you don't get funding

If you don't get a PPP loan or EIDL, you can still receive tax credits and deferrals.

Payroll-tax deferment is currently open to all businesses, regardless of size. There's no application process since it's essentially an extension on your 2020 tax-payment deadline. Businesses will still owe payroll taxes, they just won't have to file them for the rest of the calendar year. Employers would pay 50% in 2021 and the other 50% in 2022.

Businesses can receive a 50% refundable tax credit on employee wages after March 12, 2020 and before January 1, 2020. These taxes include federal income tax withholding, the employee's share of Social Security and Medicare taxes, and the employer's share of Social Security and Medicare taxes.

There are also several companies, local government entities, and organizations offering grants and resources for small businesses impacted by coronavirus. We've rounded up the 23 best sources of emergency funding for small businesses available right now if you've been denied a government loan.