Awards Database
Since 1982, Meyer has awarded grants and program-related investments totaling more than $930 million to more than 3,500 organizations around the Pacific Northwest.
Awards Since Inception
41
Years
3,500
Organizations
$930m
Awarded
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This database includes more than 9,000 grant awards Meyer Memorial Trust has made since 1982. It is updated quarterly. Use the filters below or search to refine your view. For assistance with more complex inquiries into Meyer's grants, please contact our Grant Operations team at grantops [at] mmt.org (grantops[at]mmt[dot]org).
Awards Database
Friends of Tryon Creek Park
2017
$500
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
1 month
For participation in a diversity, equity and inclusion workshop for Meyer grantees
Grant
The Freshwater Trust
2017
$20,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To develop an organizational equity strategy and provide equity training for staff
Grant
Population
- All/General
Harney County Watershed Council
2017
$5,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties Served
- Harney
To provide technical assistance to bolster this organization’s fiscal accountability
Grant
Population
- All/General
Bonneville Environmental Foundation
2017
$2,500
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
1 month
For participation in a process to plan what comes after the Willamette River Initiative, a decade-long effort to achieve meaningful, measurable improvements in the health of the river and selected tributaries by 2019
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative
Wetlands Conservancy
2017
$79,730
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
To measure the ecological and community benefits of Willamette Valley wetlands and develop resources to strengthen the case for investment in wetlands restoration and conservation
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative
Neighbors for Clean Air
2017
$10,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
For technical assistance for this organization that provides free legal services and low-cost legal aid to protect wild places, climate and livable communities across Oregon
Grant
Friends of Tryon Creek Park
2017
$42,650
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties Served
- Clackamas
- Multnomah
To support equity, diversity and inclusion work, including building an inclusive culture and developing equitable internal systems
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
- People of color
Ecotrust
2017
$250,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Clackamas
- Multnomah
- Washington
For a pilot program that recruits and trains African American and Native American individuals for careers in Portland's green workforce
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Middle Fork Willamette Watershed Council
2017
$64,700
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
11 months
To support the Middle Fork Willamette Watershed Council's continued participation in WRI's Model Watershed Program
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative
Pew Charitable Trusts
2016
$80,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
Counties Served
- Curry
- Douglas
- Josephine
- Malheur
- Tillamook
- Yamhill
To support conservation work by Latinos, military veteran organizations and tribes engaged in public land protection campaigns in Oregon
Grant
Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides
2016
$10,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
36 months
Counties ServedStatewide
For technical assistance
Grant
Central Oregon LandWatch
2016
$60,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Counties Served
- Deschutes
To support a program that advocates for affordable housing and environmental considerations in Bend's land use policy
Grant
Benton Soil and Water Conservation District
2016
$90,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
To support the Willamette Mainstem Cooperative, a partner-based effort to assess native habitats and address invasive weeds along the Willamette River between Albany and Corvallis
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative
Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility
2016
$70,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Counties ServedStatewide
To expand its climate health policy work to include an explicit focus on social justice and equity
Grant
Greenbelt Land Trust
2016
$134,752
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
35 months
For floodplain restoration at Harkens Lake, south of Corvallis.
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative
Ecotrust
2016
$35,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
8 months
Counties ServedStatewide
A planning grant to develop a collaborative approach to land repatriation to Oregon tribes
Grant
Willamette Partnership
2016
$20,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
To engage strategic partners in the Willamette Basin to advance restoration funding, water quality goals and health outcomes
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative
Environmental Education Association of Oregon
2016
$50,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
Counties ServedStatewide
To expand a culture of equity in environmental education through a peer learning network and equity leadership development program
Grant
Portland State University Foundation
2016
$250,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Counties Served
- Clackamas
- Multnomah
- Washington
For a collaborative effort to develop a new health-based model for clean air management that is informed by communities most affected by air quality impacts
Grant
Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides
2016
$70,645
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
36 months
Counties ServedStatewide
To deepen diversity, equity and inclusion in the internal culture, operations and programs of this organization that works to protect community and environmental health by inspiring the use of ecologically sound solutions to reduce the use of pesticides
Grant