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
REAP
2020
$75,000
Meyer Designated Program
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To support coordination of a statewide network of Black nonprofit CEOs and executives
Grant
Initiative
Justice Oregon for Black Lives
Population
  • Immigrants and/or refugees
  • People of color
World Stage Theatre
2020
$25,000
Meyer Designated Program
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties Served
  • Multnomah
For general operating support
Grant
Initiative
Justice Oregon for Black Lives
Population
  • People of color
Latino Network
2020
$1,000
Equitable Education
Duration of Award
2 months
For participation in the Gathering for Student Success
Grant
Unite Oregon
2020
$25,000
Meyer Designated Program
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To advance conversations about dismantling anti-Black racism within immigrant, refugee, and asylee communities in Oregon; 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
Friends of the Children - Portland
2020
$200,000
Equitable Education
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties Served
  • Clackamas
  • Columbia
  • Marion
  • Multnomah
  • Washington
  • Yamhill
To support strategies for mitigating learning loss and negative impacts on education through long-term mentoring for priority youth
Grant
Population
  • People living on low incomes
  • People of color
JOIN
2020
$124,461
Housing Opportunities
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To educate and inform public officials statewide about urgent housing needs and priorities by elevating and centering the voices of those with lived experience of homelessness and extreme housing instability
Grant
Population
  • People living on low incomes
  • People of color
Seeding Justice
2020
$25,000
Meyer Designated Program
Duration of Award
4 months
Support TypeProject Support
For the Rogue Valley Relief Fund, a crucial relief effort supporting people most impacted by wildfires in the Rogue Valley region
Grant
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
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
Habitat for Humanity of Oregon
2020
$225,000
Housing Opportunities
Duration of Award
8 months
Support TypeCapital Support
Counties Served
  • Benton
  • Clackamas
  • Clatsop
  • Columbia
  • Coos
  • Deschutes
  • Douglas
  • Hood River
  • Jackson
  • Jefferson
  • Josephine
  • Lane
  • Lincoln
  • Linn
  • Marion
  • Morrow
  • Multnomah
  • Polk
  • Tillamook
  • Umatilla
  • Union
  • Wasco
  • Washington
  • Yamhill
To develop the Rapid Rehome Fund to support Oregonians experiencing houselessness as a result of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
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
Sponsors
2020
$185,000
Housing Opportunities
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Lane
To expand existing programs to support housing stability for recently incarcerated individuals at risk of homelessness or housing displacement in Lane County
Grant
Northwest Coastal Housing
2020
$250,000
Housing Opportunities
Duration of Award
18 months
Support TypeCapital Support
Counties Served
  • Lincoln
For capital support to fund the new construction of new Veterans/Workforce Housing in Toledo, Oregon
Grant
Population
  • People living on low incomes
  • Veterans
Environmental Grantmakers Association
2020
$30,392
Meyer Designated Program
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeOperating Support
For annual membership to the Environmental Grantmakers Association and support for the integration of Native American philanthropy, Tribal funds and participation of Indigenous communities in the EGA Fall 2020 Retreat
Grant
CASA of Oregon
2020
$50,000
Meyer Designated Program
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties Served
  • Jackson
  • Josephine
For general operating support for this organization that provides housing for farmworkers and other marginalized populations in primarily rural areas
Grant
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
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
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
Partnership for Safety and Justice
2020
$165,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
18 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties ServedStatewide
For operating support of this organization focused on transforming the criminal justice system by bringing together people who are crime survivors, people convicted of crime and the families and communities of both
Grant
Population
  • People of color
Natives of One Wind Indigenous Alliance
2020
$46,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Douglas
  • Jackson
  • Josephine
  • Lane
  • Marion
  • Polk
For a collaborative that will elevate the voices of Latinx, indigenous and migrant workers working in the timber sector to help improve statewide forest practices and workplace safety rules
Grant
Population
  • Immigrants and/or refugees
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
  • People of color
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