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
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Years
3,500
Organizations
$930m
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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
Black United Fund of Oregon
2017
$100,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
26 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To strengthen this legacy organization, which has responded to the challenges and victories of marginalized communities of color in Oregon for 34 years
Grant
Population
- Immigrants and/or refugees
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Boys and Girls Club of Corvallis
2017
$100,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeCapital Support
Counties Served
- Benton
For construction of the Center for Youth Excellence, to expand key support services for diverse, low-income teens in Benton County
Grant
Population
- All/General
XRAY-FM
2017
$50,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties Served
- Clackamas
- Multnomah
- Washington
To increase this community radio station’s ability to amplify diverse voices and create an organizational culture that prioritizes, monitors and advances diversity, equity and inclusion
Grant
Population
- People of color
- Women or girls
Causa of Oregon
2017
$100,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
26 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties Served
- Marion
- Multnomah
- Polk
For a civic engagement program that engages Latinos and immigrants through leadership development, coalition building and community advocacy
Grant
Population
- Immigrants and/or refugees
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Chetco Historical Memorial Project
2017
$28,920
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Curry
To protect the remains of a prehistoric Chetco community and to highlight the tribe's significant contributions to the region
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
City of Cornelius
2017
$100,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeCapital Support
Counties Served
- Washington
For capital support of the Cornelius Library, offering expanded learning opportunities and a community space to empower, engage and enrich the lives of marginalized youth, low-income families and the Latino community in Cornelius
Grant
Population
- Immigrants and/or refugees
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Disability Art and Culture Project
2017
$50,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
26 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Multnomah
For implementation of the Leadership Institute program, to advance improvements in City of Portland and State of Oregon employment practices for people with disabilities
Grant
Population
- People of color
- People with disabilities
Dress for Success of Oregon
2017
$60,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties Served
- Clackamas
- Multnomah
- Washington
To complete an organizational assessment and update organizational policies and practices that advance equity and reduce barriers to economic security for underserved women
Grant
Population
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
- Women or girls
Eastern Oregon Healthy Living Alliance
2017
$50,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
15 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Grant
- Malheur
- Morrow
- Umatilla
To improve early childhood health and address maternal depression in rural and frontier Oregon by integrating behavioral health screening with nurse home visiting services
Grant
Population
- People living on low incomes
- Women or girls
Gorge Grown Food Network
2017
$35,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Hood River
- Sherman
- Wasco
For technical assistance for planning, development and implementation of a DEI strategy
Grant
Population
- All/General
Gorge Grown Food Network
2017
$40,754
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Hood River
- Sherman
- Wasco
For the Mid-Columbia Gorge Food Security Coalition, working to improve food security and the availability of nutritious options in Hood River, Wasco and Sherman counties, and in the Umatilla and Warm Springs Indian reservations
Grant
Population
- All/General
High Desert Museum
2017
$75,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
38 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties Served
- Baker
- Crook
- Deschutes
- Gilliam
- Grant
- Harney
- Hood River
- Jefferson
- Klamath
- Lake
- Malheur
- Morrow
- Sherman
- Umatilla
- Union
- Wallowa
- Wasco
- Wheeler
To increase this Central Oregon museum's capacity to develop responsive exhibits and programs informed by its diverse community of members
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
- People with disabilities
Immanuel Lutheran Church
2017
$35,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
14 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties Served
- Marion
For a feasibility study for the Woodburn Opportunity Partnership's multicultural, multigenerational community services and gathering space
Grant
Population
- Aging/elderly
- Immigrants and/or refugees
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Legal Aid Services of Oregon
2017
$20,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To assist tribal members in expunging outdated criminal records in Oregon
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Q Center
2017
$90,590
Building Community
Duration of Award
36 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To expand and sustain programmatic capacity and resource coordination, increasing leadership and participation among people of color, transgender and nonbinary people, seniors, youth and people with disabilities
Grant
Population
- Aging/elderly
- People of color
Old Mill Center for Children and Families
2017
$75,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
40 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Benton
- Lincoln
- Linn
To deepen diversity, equity and inclusion within this 40-year-old organization, and to conduct policy and advocacy activities related to social determinants of health in Benton, Lincoln and Linn counties
Grant
Population
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
- Women or girls
Oregon Black Pioneers
2017
$35,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To increase understanding of the courage and struggle of black Oregonians through the civil rights movement and into the present day
Grant
Population
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Oregon Children's Theatre Company
2017
$30,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To guide the theatre's internal equity work, leading to more inclusive programs and statewide access
Grant
Population
- People of color
Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education
2017
$56,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Clackamas
- Marion
- Multnomah
- Tillamook
- Washington
- Yamhill
To develop curricula for two new core exhibitions, "Discrimination and Resistance, An Oregon Primer" and "The Holocaust, An Oregon Perspective," revealing the roots of hate and illuminating the values of inclusion and respect
Grant
Population
- Immigrants and/or refugees
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Northwest Native Chamber
2017
$29,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To increase this statewide organization's internal capacity to respond to the economic development needs of Native Americans and Native enterprise in Oregon
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
- People living on low incomes