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
ROSE Community Development Corporation
2018
$143,721
Housing Opportunities
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties Served
- Multnomah
To help this Multnomah County housing provider oversee its growing rental housing portfolio and support an organization-wide strategic plan
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Grant
Population
- People living on low incomes
Portland Public Schools
2018
$184,528
Equitable Education
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties Served
- Multnomah
For engaging Portland Public Schools families and the local community in a meaningful partnership so together they can improve priority student achievement
Grant
Population
- English language learners
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Serendipity Center
2018
$180,000
Equitable Education
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties Served
- Clackamas
- Multnomah
- Washington
To expand a successful pilot program that prevents and responds to therapeutic school behavior issues
Grant
Population
- People living on low incomes
- People with disabilities
Southern Oregon University
2018
$185,000
Equitable Education
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Douglas
- Jackson
- Josephine
- Klamath
- Lane
To expand Southern Oregon University's programming for Latino youth in school, grades 7-12, including parent curriculum, leadership training and dual credit access
Grant
Population
- First-generation college students
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Youth Progress Association
2018
$160,000
Equitable Education
Duration of Award
36 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties Served
- Multnomah
To improve culturally responsive and trauma-informed practices at a school for youth within Portland's foster care system
Grant
Population
- Foster youth
- People of color
Benton Soil and Water Conservation District
2018
$149,388
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Benton
- Linn
- Marion
- Polk
To fund inclusion assessment, education, and planning that prizes diversity, equity and inclusion for a Corvallis-based collective of five conservation organizations
Grant
Bonneville Environmental Foundation
2018
$165,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
36 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To expand a pilot program that will implement community solar projects serving low-income residents in Oregon
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians
2018
$185,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Douglas
- Lane
- Lincoln
- Tillamook
To fund a natural lands conservation planning process that also integrates the Siletz Tribe’s cultural and healthy traditions goals
Grant
Population
- Aging/elderly
- Indigenous communities and tribes
- People living on low incomes
Deschutes River Conservancy
2018
$135,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Crook
- Deschutes
- Jefferson
To develop a water marketing strategy that will equitably solve long-standing water management issues in the Deschutes Basin
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
Heartwood Resources
2018
$166,619
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties Served
- Douglas
- Josephine
To launch a recycled building supply store in Grants Pass that will help provide job opportunities, new recycling streams, and economic vitality
Grant
Population
- People living on low incomes
- People who were formerly incarcerated
Lomakatsi Restoration Project
2018
$185,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties ServedStatewide
For funding increased organizational capacity so that more Tribal, Latinx and other rural, forest-based communities with low-incomes can have greater access to the management of environmental resources
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Neighbors for Clean Air
2018
$184,800
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
36 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties Served
- Clackamas
- Multnomah
- Washington
To fund a paid Executive Director position for this organization that works to reduce air pollution impacts for the benefit of all communities
Grant
Population
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Nez Perce Tribe
2018
$136,978
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Wallowa
For building a Tribal fisheries program that promotes scientific inquiry and integrates Nez Perce tribal knowledge and indigenous perspectives into Wallowa Lake management
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
Oregon Environmental Council
2018
$150,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties ServedStatewide
For operating support to work on climate, water, and toxic-reduction campaigns that are inclusive and promote equity for low-income populations and communities of color
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Oregon Wild
2018
$120,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
For funding diversity, equity, and inclusion priorities into forest conservation campaigns so all of Oregon's diverse communities benefit from a healthy environment
Grant
Population
- People of color
- Women or girls
Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility
2018
$110,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To mobilize health professionals in the fight against climate change so that the climate justice movement can better serve local and state-wide communities most affected by it
Grant
Population
- Immigrants and/or refugees
- Indigenous communities and tribes
- People of color
Oregon Rural Action
2018
$125,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
37 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Baker
- Malheur
- Morrow
- Umatilla
- Union
- Wallowa
For hiring a bilingual organizer to engage Latinx communities in food, agricultural justice, and energy campaigns
Grant
Population
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Save Our wild Salmon Coalition
2018
$150,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
25 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties ServedStatewide
For funding a collaboration that will help restore Columbia Basin salmon habitat to benefit Northwest communities.
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
Sierra Club Foundation
2018
$140,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties ServedStatewide
For teaching staff and volunteers the importance of leadership skills built upon the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion and to then partner with frontline communities on climate justice campaigns
Grant
Population
- Aging/elderly
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
2018
$176,037
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Umatilla
- Union
To fund a program that will improve air quality and coordination around prescribed burn fires at The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
- People of color