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
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
Luke-Dorf
2020
$180,000
Housing Opportunities
Duration of Award
24 months
Counties Served
  • Multnomah
  • Washington
To support deeper engagement with diversity, equity and inclusion work within the organization’s housing portfolio
Grant
Population
  • People with disabilities
Innovation Law Lab
2020
$165,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
18 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties ServedStatewide
For legal counsel, representation, litigation, advocacy and volunteer management in connection with the detention of immigrants at the Federal Correctional Institution in Sheridan, Ore.; this grant is awarded as a part of the Oregon Immigrant and Refugee Funders Collaborative, which addresses critical and time-sensitive issues facing immigrants and refugees
Grant
Population
  • Immigrants and/or refugees
  • People of color
Family Access Network Foundation
2020
$75,000
Equitable Education
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties Served
  • Crook
  • Deschutes
  • Jefferson
For general operating support of FAN Advocate Services across Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson counties
Grant
Population
  • People living on low incomes
Asian Health and Service Center
2020
$150,000
Meyer Designated Program
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties Served
  • Clackamas
  • Multnomah
  • Washington
For general operating support
Grant
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
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
High Desert Food & Farm Alliance
2020
$177,942
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Jefferson
To develop and implement a plan that will establish a sustainable, culturally relevant food system in the Warm Springs community
Grant
Population
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
  • People living on low incomes
Muslim Educational Trust
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
American Rivers
2020
$100,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Malheur
For a collaborative effort working with Tribes and ranchers to increase support for protections of more than one million acres of public land in Malheur County
Grant
Population
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations
2020
$9,690
Meyer Designated Program
Duration of Award
12 months
For annual membership
Grant
Native American Youth and Family Center
2020
$25,000
Equitable Education
Duration of Award
6 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Multnomah
To support costs associated with participating in the planning and implementation of the Student Success Act
Grant
Population
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
  • People living on low incomes
Seeding Justice
2020
$100,000
Meyer Designated Program
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To support the Since Time Immemorial fund for COVID-19 relief for Tribes and Native communities
Grant
Population
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods
2020
$1,000
Meyer Designated Program
Duration of Award
1 month
Support TypeProject Support
For participation in Meyer Learning Week 2020
Grant
Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon
2020
$30,000
Meyer Designated Program
Duration of Award
2 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Clackamas
  • Multnomah
  • Tillamook
  • Washington
  • Yamhill
To provide emergency bridge funding to maintain critical immigrant and refugee resettlement services; this grant was awarded as a part of the Oregon Immigrant and Refugee Funders Collaborative, which addresses critical and time-sensitive issues facing immigrants and refugees
Grant
Population
  • Immigrants and/or refugees
Oregon Environmental Council
2020
$15,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
10 months
Counties ServedStatewide
To support restorative justice and facilitation for advocacy organizations working on state climate justice policy
Grant
Population
  • People of color
Project Access NOW
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
Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council
2020
$1,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
2 months
For participation in an educational webinar on advancing racial equity in freshwater funding
Grant
Metropolitan Public Defender Service
2020
$150,262
Meyer Designated Program
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Multnomah
For continued support of the removal defense project to prevent and confront efforts to deport Oregonians through free legal services
Grant
African American Alliance for Home Ownership
2020
$25,000
Meyer Designated Program
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties Served
  • Multnomah
For general operating support for this organization that works to increase homeownership and economic stability for African-Americans and other underserved individuals in Portland
Grant
Initiative
Justice Oregon for Black Lives
Population
  • People of color
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