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
ACLU Foundation of Oregon
2020
$1,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
1 month
Support TypeProject Support
For participation in a systems change convening
Grant
Population
- People of color
Oregon Robotics Tournament and Outreach Program
2020
$75,000
Equitable Education
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To reduce opportunity gaps for priority youth across Oregon through the Equity & Inclusion Support Fund
Grant
Population
- People of color
- People with disabilities
August Wilson Red Door Project
2020
$75,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To provide innovative training for criminal justice professionals to support systemic change and increased public safety
Grant
Population
- People of color
Save Our wild Salmon Coalition
2020
$192,280
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To support grassroots organizing to restore the lower Snake River and its endangered salmon and steelhead
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
Lomakatsi Restoration Project
2020
$120,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
36 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Jackson
- Josephine
To support integration of the Promotora Program into this organization that works with Tribes and low-income, forest-based communities in Southern Oregon and Northern California
Grant
Population
- Immigrants and/or refugees
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Verde
2020
$1,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
1 month
Support TypeProject Support
For participation in a systems change convening
Grant
Population
- People of color
Coalition of Communities of Color
2020
$1,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
1 month
Support TypeProject Support
For participation in a systems change convening
Grant
Population
- People of color
Oregon Citizens' Utility Board
2020
$70,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To support advocacy for energy policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and eliminate environmental justice and affordability inequities
Grant
Population
- People living on low incomes
United Way of Lane County
2020
$15,000
Meyer Designated Program
Duration of Award
4 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Lane
For relief support for Lane County communities facing hardship from wildfires
Grant
Red Lodge Transition Services
2020
$115,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
18 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties ServedStatewide
For operating support of this Native American-led organization that provides culturally focused programs for individuals released from jails, prisons and treatment programs who are working on creating a better life for themselves, their children and their communities
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
- People of color
Partners for a Hunger-Free Oregon
2020
$25,000
Equitable Education
Duration of Award
12 months
Counties ServedStatewide
To support internal capacity for strategic activities that advance anti-racist organizational practices
Grant
Population
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
United Way of Lane County
2020
$200,000
Equitable Education
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Lane
To achieve measurable progress on third grade reading for priority students in Lane County through the "Lane County Reads" program
Grant
Population
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Metropolitan Family Service
2020
$66,011
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Clackamas
- Multnomah
- Washington
For project support to expand access to tax preparation services and tax credits and to build internal capacity to deepen systems change work at this organization that serves families living in the Portland Metro area
Grant
Population
- People of color
Partnership for Safety and Justice
2020
$2,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
1 month
Support TypeProject Support
For participation in a systems change convening
Grant
Population
- People of color
Black United Fund of Oregon
2020
$200,000
Meyer Designated Program
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties ServedStatewide
For general operating support of this organization working to increase philanthropic activity and fund organizations providing resources for underserved low-income communities and communities of color in Oregon; this grant was awarded as part of the Oregon Justice for Black Lives initiative, a five-year, $25 million investment in Black leadership, Black-serving organizations and systems-level
Grant
Initiative
Justice Oregon for Black Lives
Population
- People of color
Oregon Environmental Council
2020
$200,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
28 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties ServedStatewide
For operating support of this organization working to ensure clean water, to protect children from toxics and to protect communities from the impacts of climate change
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc.
2020
$15,000
Equitable Education
Duration of Award
18 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Multnomah
To create a meaningful feedback loop with Multnomah County priority students and families through the Fund for Shared Insight's Listen4Good Initiative
Grant
Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs
2020
$150,000
Meyer Designated Program
Duration of Award
6 months
Support TypeProject Support
To support relief efforts related to interrupted water service that threaten residents' of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Indian Reservation
Grant
Social Good Fund
2020
$80,485
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Columbia
- Multnomah
For the Portland Harbor Community Coalition to support communities living in and around the Portland Harbor on the Willamette River in developing a vision for a clean and just energy future
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Beyond Toxics
2020
$10,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
8 months
Support TypeProject Support
For storytelling and communications support in response to the 2020 Oregon wildfires, focusing on forests, climate and impacts on frontline communities
Grant