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
$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
Oregon Humanities
2020
$100,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To support civc programming and internal capacity at this independent, nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities
Grant
Population
  • People of color
Oregon Student Foundation
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
Street Roots
2020
$120,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties Served
  • Clackamas
  • Multnomah
  • Washington
For operating support to create a larger sense of community for people who are disenfranchised from power and societal belonging.
Grant
Population
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
  • 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
Voz Workers' Rights Education Project
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
Unite Oregon
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
Rural Organizing Project
2020
$240,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties ServedStatewide
For operating support of this statewide organization working to build the capacity of local grassroots groups in rural communities to shift culture and create systems change at the local, county and state level
Grant
Population
  • Immigrants and/or refugees
  • People of color
Momentum Alliance
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
Momentum Alliance
2020
$100,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties Served
  • Clackamas
  • Marion
  • Multnomah
  • Washington
To strengthen Oregon's youth-led social justice movements by supporting BIPOC youth of color and creating opportunities for youth organizing and healing in the Portland Metro area and beyond
Grant
Population
  • Immigrants and/or refugees
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
  • People of color
Causa of Oregon
2020
$180,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
18 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties ServedStatewide
For operating support of this organization working to assist immigrant and undocumented communities in Oregon that are most impacted by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
Grant
Population
  • Immigrants and/or refugees
  • People of color
Portland Jobs with Justice Education Fund
2020
$140,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
18 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties Served
  • Clackamas
  • Multnomah
  • Washington
For operating support of this organization that educates and takes action for workers rights and economic justice, especially those most marginalized by our economic systems: people of color, immigrants, LGBTQ people and women
Grant
Population
  • Immigrants and/or refugees
  • 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
Portland Jobs with Justice Education Fund
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
Verde
2020
$175,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties ServedStatewide
To build power and wealth in low-income and people of color communities through community control of resources and investments
Grant
Population
  • Immigrants and/or refugees
  • People of color
Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon
2020
$74,790
Building Community
Duration of Award
12 months
Support TypeProject Support
Counties Served
  • Clackamas
  • Columbia
  • Hood River
  • Marion
  • Multnomah
  • Washington
For project support to increase low-income entrepreneurs' access to financial institutions
Grant
Population
  • People of color
Western States Center
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
Central City Concern
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
Western States Center
2020
$150,000
Building Community
Duration of Award
24 months
Support TypeOperating Support
Counties ServedStatewide
For operating support of this organization working in the eight Western states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada and Alaska to advance racial, gender and economic equity
Grant
Population
  • Immigrants and/or refugees
  • Indigenous communities and tribes
  • People of color
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
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