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
Middle Fork Willamette Watershed Council
2016
$10,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
6 months
For capacity building and technical assistance
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative
Northwest Forest Worker Center
2016
$105,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
36 months
Counties Served
- Deschutes
- Jackson
- Josephine
- Klamath
For operational capacity building to add an outreach coordinator, a community health worker and professional development support at this organization that promotes forest stewardship
Grant
McKenzie River Trust
2016
$80,811
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
For floodplain restoration at Green Island, located at the confluence of the McKenzie and the Willamette Rivers.
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative
The Forest Park Conservancy
2016
$25,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
Counties Served
- Columbia
- Multnomah
- Washington
For technical assistance to develop an organizational equity strategy and provide equity training to staff and board members
Grant
Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians
2016
$15,050
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
To convene a Tribal Water Forum in Summer 2017, which will bring the nine federally-recognized Oregon tribes together along with key state and federal partners and community leaders to capture Tribes’ common interests around water
Grant
Cascade Pacific Resource Conservation and Development
2016
$24,915
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
8 months
For the scoping phase of a values assessment of agricultural landowners along the mainstem Willamette River
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative
Craft3
2016
$250,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Counties Served
- Clackamas
- Clatsop
- Coos
- Deschutes
To establish a clean water loan program that provides financing to Oregon homeowners — nearly half of whom are low-income — for repair or replacement of failing septic systems
Grant
Benton Soil and Water Conservation District
2016
$157,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
For geomorphic mapping and outreach in support of Willamette River restoration and floodplain management
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative
Our Children's Trust
2016
$60,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Counties ServedStatewide
For work supporting youth climate advocates, pro bono legal counsel and climate experts in legal actions to mitigate for climate change
Grant
Center for Diversity and the Environment
2016
$70,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
Counties ServedStatewide
For operating support for this organization working to advance racial and ethnic diversity, equity and inclusion in the environmental movement, and to provide training and support to grantees of Meyer's Willamette River Initiative
Grant
Oregon Council of Trout Unlimited
2016
$70,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Counties Served
- Crook
- Deschutes
- Jackson
- Jefferson
- Josephine
To develop and implement collaborative water resource management solutions in the Rogue and Umpqua river basins that support ecosystem health while also meeting the cultural and resource needs of tribal communities and ensuring adequate water to sustain the economic foundation of the region’s rural communities
Grant
Willamette Riverkeeper
2016
$199,525
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
29 months
For floodplain restoration at Willamette Mission State Park just north of Keizer.
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative
Tualatin Riverkeepers
2016
$88,500
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Counties Served
- Washington
To add new staff to help deepen equity, diversity and inclusion impact in this organization's work protecting and restoring the Tualatin River system
Grant
University of Oregon
2016
$60,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
To expand and update the Slices framework, a tool for tracking progress toward restoration goals, to include floodplain forest extent in three Willamette River tributaries
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative
Long Tom Watershed Council
2016
$4,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
11 months
For continued participation in the Willamette Model Watershed Program
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative
Crag Law Center
2016
$120,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Counties Served
- Benton
- Clackamas
- Clatsop
- Crook
- Deschutes
- Douglas
- Hood River
- Jackson
- Josephine
- Lane
- Linn
- Marion
- Multnomah
- Polk
- Washington
- Yamhill
To add a staff attorney position for land use issues in rural, underserved communities, and for diversity, equity and inclusion training for staff, board members and partners
Grant
Benton Soil and Water Conservation District
2016
$198,620
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
20 months
For USGS to create a framework for better understanding of coldwater refuges in the mainstem Willamette River
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
Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts
2016
$60,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Counties ServedStatewide
For operating support of this network of 17 land trusts working to advance land conservation across the state
Grant
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