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
CAPACES Leadership Institute
2022
$300,000
Meyer Designated Program
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeCapital Support
Counties Served
- Marion
For the purchase of property to house Anahuac, a Latinx farmworker-led program that aims to build local agricultural and food economies that center environmental stewardship, labor rights and ancestral practices in Oregon’s Mid-Willamette Valley
Grant
Population
- People living on low incomes
- Indigenous communities and tribes
- Immigrants and/or refugees
Portland Community Reinvestment Initiatives
2022
$300,000
Housing Opportunities
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeCapital Support
Counties Served
- Multnomah
To provide capital support for the redevelopment of Kaufory Court, an affordable housing project serving African American seniors in North and Northeast Portland
Grant
Population
- People of color
- Aging/elderly
NAMC-Oregon
2022
$300,000
Meyer Designated Program
Duration of Award
36 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties Served
- Washington
- Multnomah
- Clackamas
For general operating support of this organization, which leverages resources across private, public and business partnerships to improve the economic outcomes for Black communities across the state
Grant
Initiative
Justice Oregon for Black Lives
Museum at Warm Springs
2022
$400,000
Meyer Designated Program
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Washington
- Wasco
- Multnomah
- Jefferson
- Deschutes
- Clackamas
To support community and environmental workshops for members of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs that represent the cycle of tribal life and work, and create an archive for American Indian history
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
Coalition of Communities of Color
2022
$150,000
Housing Opportunities
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Washington
- Multnomah
- Clackamas
To support collaborative work to develop and disseminate strategic communications around housing and homelessness grounded in racial justice and proven effectiveness
Grant
Population
- People with disabilities
- People of color
Beaverton School District
2022
$60,000
Meyer Designated Program
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Washington
To restore and create a culturally-relevant outdoor space to support and further develop Native-led educational programming in the Beaverton School District
Grant
NLIHC
2022
$3,000
Housing Opportunities
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties ServedStatewide
For one-year membership in the National Low Income Housing Coalition
Grant
Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment
2022
$59,099
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Wasco
- Umatilla
- Sherman
- Multnomah
- Morrow
- Hood River
- Gilliam
For grassroots organizing to protect river health and native species and promote Tribal sovereignty
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
Oregon Indian Education Association
2022
$35,920
Equitable Education
Duration of Award
12 months
Counties ServedStatewide
To help build a statewide network and resources to support American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian educators in Oregon
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
Ecotrust
2022
$120,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
15 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To build a measurement and evaluation framework and practice toolkit that will increase understanding of the positive impact Ecotrust's programs have on economic opportunity, social equity and environmental wellbeing
Grant
Verde
2022
$30,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
5 months
Counties ServedStatewide
To support executive director coaching and organizational strategic planning for this organization that works to secure social and economic benefits for low-income people and people of color in Portland and throughout the state
Population
- People of color
- People living on low incomes
- Indigenous communities and tribes
Children of the Setting Sun Productions
2022
$85,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To support pre-production research and development for a six-part documentary series that includes stories from six Pacific Northwest tribes
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
Alliance for Justice
2022
$10,000
Meyer Designated Program
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties ServedStatewide
For support of the Bolder Advocacy Program which works to make advocacy more accessible to nonprofit and foundation leaders
Grant
Northwest Health Foundation Fund II
2022
$100,000
Meyer Designated Program
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To help establish organizational infrastructure for a new progressive donor table in Oregon that will foster and fund cross-issue movement priorities
Grant
Neighborhood Partnerships
2022
$200,000
Housing Opportunities
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To support a collaborative effort of ten organizations to participate in the HB2100 Task Force on Homelessness and Racial Disparities
Grant
Population
- People of color
- Indigenous communities and tribes
Western States Center
2022
$100,000
Meyer Designated Program
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties ServedStatewide
For capacity building support of this organization which works to strengthen inclusive democracy in advance of a potential surge in political unrest in 2022
Grant
Lomakatsi Restoration Project
2022
$74,980
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To support development of a framework for ongoing collaboration around ecosystem and community resilience in the face of climate change
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
Tides Center
2022
$43,350
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Yamhill
- Washington
- Polk
- Multnomah
- Marion
- Linn
- Lane
- Clackamas
- Benton
To host a gathering of professionals, scientists and Tribal leaders to discuss a strategic approach to addressing the decline of steelhead in the Willamette River and develop an action plan
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative
TSNE MissionWorks
2022
$10,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
11 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
For continued membership in the Leadership Funders Group
Grant
Charitable Partnership Fund
2022
$20,250
Housing Opportunities
Duration of Award
18 months
Counties Served
- Washington
- Multnomah
- Clackamas
For assistance with strategic planning and support for community convenings related to homelessness
Grant