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

Awardee
Year
Type
Amount
Category
Ecotrust
2021
$120,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Counties Served
  • Multnomah
To create a pipeline for Black farmers to develop collective power through agricultural skills, securely accessing land, and transforming agricultural policy
Grant
Population
  • People living on low incomes
  • People of color
Elderberry Wisdom Farm
2021
$180,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Counties Served
  • Marion
  • Polk
  • Yamhill
To train Native American and BIPOC students in traditional ecological knowledge to restore sacred landscapes in the Mid-Willamette Valley
Grant
Population
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
  • People living on low incomes
  • People of color
Friends of Family Farmers
2021
$127,862
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To connect new BIPOC farmers with land, empower BIPOC farmers as advocates and amplify BIPOC farmers’ voices in agricultural policy making
Grant
Population
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
  • People living on low incomes
  • People of color
Friends of Trees
2021
$89,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Clackamas
  • Marion
  • Multnomah
  • Washington
To expand and enrich an urban forestry and restoration workforce development program for BIPOC youth and adults
Grant
Population
  • Immigrants and/or refugees
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
  • People of color
High Desert Partnership
2021
$109,238
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Counties Served
  • Harney
To improve ecosystem health in Harney County through collaborative action with a focus on low-income and Tribal residents
Grant
Population
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
  • People living on low incomes
The Nature Conservancy in Oregon
2021
$169,463
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Counties Served
  • Jackson
  • Klamath
  • Lake
To expand the knowledge and capacity of the Klamath Tribe to use cultural fire management practices as part of land stewardship
Grant
Population
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
The Nature Conservancy in Oregon
2021
$150,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Curry
  • Jackson
  • Josephine
For a collaborative effort to address escalating wildfire risks, smoke and a changing climate within the dry, fire-dependent forests and surrounding communities of the Rogue River Basin in Southern Oregon
Grant
Population
  • Immigrants and/or refugees
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
  • People living on low incomes
Neighbors for Clean Air
2021
$35,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Clackamas
  • Multnomah
To develop at least four frontline community cohorts in East Portland to address air quality concerns
Grant
Population
  • Immigrants and/or refugees
  • People living on low incomes
  • People of color
Network of Oregon Watershed Councils
2021
$43,700
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Clatsop
  • Columbia
  • Coos
  • Crook
  • Curry
  • Deschutes
  • Douglas
  • Hood River
  • Jackson
  • Jefferson
  • Klamath
  • Lake
  • Lane
  • Lincoln
  • Tillamook
  • Wasco
To support DEI training for three cohorts of directors and employees of Watershed Councils located in three different regions of the state
Grant
Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides
2021
$87,711
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Jefferson
  • Malheur
  • Morrow
  • Umatilla
  • Wasco
To strengthen culturally-responsive programs that reduce pesticide exposure and increase opportunities for farmworkers to enact systems-level change in Eastern Oregon
Grant
Population
  • Immigrants and/or refugees
  • People living on low incomes
  • People of color
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
2021
$120,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To hire a conservation director to work with BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities to create and launch Wild Diversity’s Conservation Initiative over the next two years
Grant
Population
  • People of color
Oregon Natural Desert Association
2021
$150,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Harney
  • Lake
  • Malheur
To support Tribal conservation and stewardship efforts to increase the resiliency of Oregon’s high desert lands, water, wildlife and communities
Grant
Population
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
Oregon Wild
2021
$150,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To protect the carbon storing potential of Pacific Northwest forests by deepening intersectional work around forests and climate justice
Grant
Population
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
  • People of color
Portland Audubon Society
2021
$95,700
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Multnomah
To support a movement for environmental and community health on Portland's working waterfront in partnership with frontline communities
Grant
Population
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
  • People living on low incomes
  • People of color
Strategic Energy Innovations
2021
$130,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
For a fellowship program to strengthen BIPOC leadership development in climate policy advocacy organizations in Oregon
Grant
Population
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
  • People living on low incomes
  • People of color
Sustainable Northwest
2021
$128,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Harney
To build capacity and provide technical assistance to support energy independence for the Burns Paiute Tribe in Harney County
Grant
Population
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
2021
$140,759
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
17 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Umatilla
  • Union
To publish and launch the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation Climate Adaptation Plan
Grant
Population
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
  • People of color
Trust for Public Land
2021
$200,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Douglas
To restore the Cow Creek Tribe’s ownership and management of Southern Oregon forestland to protect natural and cultural resources
Grant
Population
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
Western Rivers Conservancy
2021
$100,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Linn
  • Marion
To preserve rare native fish habitat along the North Santiam River while returning Indigenous lands to the Santiam Kalapuya people
Grant
Population
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
Justice Outside
2021
$185,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
Counties ServedStatewide
To strengthen financial support and capacity building for Oregon-based, BIPOC-led organizations and projects working at the intersection of racial justice and the outdoors and environmental movements
Grant
Population
  • Immigrants and/or refugees
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
  • People of color
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