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
Verde
2019
$143,750
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
7 months
To support early program design work of the City of Portland Clean Energy Fund by the nonprofit organizations that led the effort to establish it
Grant
The Nature Conservancy in Oregon
2019
$36,836
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
13 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties Served
- Jackson
- Klamath
- Lake
For capacity building to strengthen partnerships with The Klamath Tribe and identify mutual conservation priorities, including integrating conservation practices that reflect the Tribe’s traditional knowledge with science-based practices to conserve and restore ecosystem health in the Klamath Basin
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
Middle Fork Willamette Watershed Council
2019
$5,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
1 month
For general operating support of the model watershed council
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative
The Forest Park Conservancy
2019
$163,879
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Multnomah
- Washington
To launch a green jobs training and internship program for young adults of color in the Portland Metro area
Grant
Population
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
Columbia Slough Watershed Council
2019
$25,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties Served
- Multnomah
For strategic planning and capacity building at this organization that engages diverse communities that live in and around Portland's Columbia Slough watershed in land stewardship and restoration efforts
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
The Nature Conservancy in Oregon
2019
$250,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Curry
- Jackson
- Josephine
To support a collaborative effort addressing escalating wildfire, smoke and a changing climate risks within dry, fire-dependent forests and surrounding communities of the Rogue River Basin in southern Oregon
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
- People living on low incomes
Benton Soil and Water Conservation District
2019
$27,742
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
37 months
Support TypeProject Support
To assess non-chemical methods for controlling aquatic invasive weeds that degrade habitats along the Willamette River
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative
Marys River Watershed Council
2019
$1,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
8 months
For diversity, equity and inclusion training
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative
Beyond Toxics
2019
$25,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
For a statewide summit on environmental justice
Grant
Willamette Riverkeeper
2019
$159,334
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
35 months
For aquatic habitat restoration at the slough in Minto-Brown Island Park, the largest park in Salem
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative
Northwest Environmental Defense Center
2019
$15,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
12 months
Counties Served
- Multnomah
For technical assistance to develop and implement diversity, equity and inclusion training at this organization serving public interest in environmental law
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
- People living on low incomes
- People of color
North Santiam Watershed Council
2019
$6,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
1 month
For general operating support of the model watershed council
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative
The Klamath Tribes
2019
$185,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
- Klamath
For support of advocacy and legal work to advance the Tribes’ efforts to protect and restore the C’waam and Koptu fish populations in the Upper Klamath Basin
Grant
Population
- Indigenous communities and tribes
- People living on low incomes
Johnson Creek Watershed Council
2019
$72,305
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
27 months
Support TypeCapacity Building Support
Counties Served
- Clackamas
- Multnomah
To support restoration workforce training programs provided to Native American and African American youth and community outreach to deepen equity, diversity and inclusion impact by engaging more people of color and immigrants from the watershed in stewardship and restoration efforts
Grant
Population
- Immigrants and/or refugees
- People of color
Benton Soil and Water Conservation District
2019
$5,800
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
3 months
Support TypeProject Support
To support the State of the Willamette shared learning workshop
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative
Central Oregon Environmental Center
2019
$31,900
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
13 months
Counties Served
- Crook
- Deschutes
- Jefferson
For technical assistance to conduct an organization-wide diversity, equity and inclusion assessment, training and implementation process at this organization that promotes a healthy environment through advocacy that shapes local climate, land use and transportation policies and infrastructure decisions in Central Oregon
Grant
McKenzie River Trust
2019
$1,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
8 months
For staff capacity support to participate in diversity, equity and inclusion training
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative
North Portland Community Works
2019
$2,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
1 month
For staff capacity to participate in a series of convenings to build community among groups working on culturally-relevant environmental education in the Willamette River Basin
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative
Center for Diversity and the Environment
2019
$110,472
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
15 months
To support a diversity, equity and inclusion training cohort of Willamette River conservation organizations and the new Willamette River Network
Grant
Initiative
Willamette River Initiative
Our Climate Education Fund
2019
$50,000
Healthy Environment
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To hire an Oregon-based field organizer to support students at colleges and universities in engaging in and advocating for equitable science-based climate policy efforts
Grant
Population
- People of color