Awards Database

Since 1982, Meyer has awarded grants and program-related investments totaling more than $814 million to more than 3,380 organizations around the Pacific Northwest. Today, Meyer focuses on work in Oregon in four areas Oregonians have identified as crucial to making the state better for all its residents: housing, education, the environment and building stronger communities.

Awards Since Inception

38
Years
9,825
Awards
$814m
Awarded

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This awards database includes more than 9,000 grant awards Meyer Memorial Trust has made since 1982. Use the filters below or search to refine your view.

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Awardee
Year
Type
Amount
Portfolio
Burns Paiute Tribe
2020
$99,780
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties Served
  • Harney
To build the capacity of the Burns Paiute Tribe to more effectively engage in discussions about water management in their traditional homelands
Grant
Population
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
OPAL
2020
$250,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties ServedStatewide
For general operating support of this community-led collaborative that advances climate justice and statewide properties for communities on the frontlines
Grant
Population
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
  • People living on low incomes
  • People of color
350PDX
2020
$46,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
10 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Multnomah
To support a partnership with Sunrise Movement PDX and an Earth Day event in Portland that will mobilize frontline communities and build the capacity of youth to be leaders within in the climate and environmental justice movement
Grant
Population
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
  • People living on low incomes
  • People of color
Long Tom Watershed Council
2020
$30,273
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
For completion of the final phase of a large-scale floodplain reforestation effort at the Snag Boat Bend project site in Linn County
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative
NW Energy Coalition
2020
$110,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
30 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To deepen this Seattle-based organization’s work with environmental justice organizations working to advance more just and inclusive energy policy decisions in Oregon
Grant
Population
  • People living on low incomes
  • People of color
Salmon-Safe
2020
$80,570
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To incorporate Tribal conservation priorities related to First Foods into Salmon-Safe certification standards
Grant
Population
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
Friends of the Columbia Gorge
2020
$30,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Hood River
  • Multnomah
  • Wasco
For technical assistance to support deeper integration of diversity, equity and inclusion goals into this organization's work to ensure the long-term protection and resilience of the Columbia Gorge
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
Native Fish Society
2020
$85,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
14 months
Counties ServedStatewide
To grow relationships with rural and Indigenous communities by integrating equity outcomes into ongoing environmental programs and efforts
Grant
Population
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
  • People living on low incomes
Children's Forest of Central Oregon
2020
$59,915
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Crook
  • Deschutes
  • Jefferson
For a collaborative that supports increasing outdoor access for central Oregon’s Latinx communities
Grant
Population
  • Immigrants and/or refugees
  • People of color
Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility
2020
$160,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
30 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To mobilize health professionals in the fight against climate change so that the climate justice movement can better serve local and state-wide communities most affected by it
Grant
Cascade Pacific Resource Conservation and Development
2020
$27,500
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
For project support to expand development of a collaborative basin-wide project between Willamette River drinking water providers and local soil and water conservation districts to improve agricultural practices, water quality and river health
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative
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
Friends of Trees
2020
$31,725
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
7 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties Served
  • Clackamas
  • Lane
  • Marion
  • Multnomah
  • Washington
For technical assistance to support an Executive Director transition for this environmental organization that serves five counties in Oregon
Grant
Population
  • People living on low incomes
Long Tom Watershed Council
2020
$39,723
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
16 months
Support TypeProject Support
For completion of a floodplain inundation mapping for 160 miles of the Willamette River
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative
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
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
BARK
2020
$12,500
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
8 months
Support TypeProject Support
To support public education about the 2020 Oregon wildfires and impacts of post-fire logging in the Mt. Hood National Forest
Grant
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
Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council
2020
$158,884
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Counties Served
  • Lane
To build capacity for more resilient, inclusive and effective collaborative action in the Upper Willamette basin
Grant
Population
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
  • People living on low incomes
  • People of color
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