MMT Quarterly Awards Report - FY2011 Q1 (April-June 2010)
In the first quarter of our current fiscal year (April 1 through June 30, 2010), Meyer Memorial Trust made 75 grants and 2 program related investment loans totaling approximately $5.9 million. These awards are listed in our Awards Database and are announced monthly on our website.
Grassroots Grants Program: Thirty-three awards were made totaling $529,019. As you can see from the chart at right, the awards were widely dispersed to organizations around Oregon, as well as Clark County, Washington.
Responsive Grants Program: Eight grants and one program related investment loan were made to Habitat for Humanity affiliates totaling $730,000. An additional 27 awards were made through the RG program totaling $3,913,900.
Responsive Grant program awards were made in the program focus areas shown in the chart at left.
Initiative Programs: Eight awards were made for Willamette River Initiative projects totaling $695,670.
This is just a small snapshot of our grantmaking during Q1. I will provide an update again in October.
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Oct 20 2010 - 10:58am
Grassroots Grants to the South Coast
Hello Bill,
Thank you for raising this question. Meyer Memorial Trust is mainly a responsive funder, which means that we respond to the proposals that are submitted to us. In the Grassroots Grants round that was awarded in June 2010 (highlighted in the chart above), we received 70 applications. Of those applications, four were from organizations in the Southern Coast region. All four of those applications were funded (100%), totaling $44,500 (8.4% of the total Grassroots Grants awards for that round.)
Please also keep in mind that the information above is just a snapshot of our giving for the first quarter of our current fiscal year. Since the Trust's inception, we have made 177 awards totaling $7,313,066 to the Southern Coast region.
Oct 8 2010 - 8:59pm
South Coast wuz schnookered
How come the South Coast got only 12% of the grants. Given that we have less than 10% of the people, it does not follow that our share of the problems is also single digit. I believe that our employment rate is lower and our poverty rate is higher. I hope these disparities will be given more weight in future.
The pie chart on this page shows that 12% of the orgs getting grassroots grants are on the South Coast, but what % of the money did they get?