MacKenzie Scott is an American philanthropist and author known for major charitable giving and for previously being married to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
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MacKenzie Scott is steering huge higher education gifts toward HBCUs and other underfunded colleges, with Howard University and Morgan State among the schools getting record support.
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MacKenzie Scott gave Meals on Wheels America a $70 million unrestricted donation to help expand meals, safety checks, and social support for older adults and homebound people.
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MacKenzie Scott gave The Trevor Project $45 million, its biggest donation ever, as the group faces rising demand for LGBTQ+ youth crisis support.
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MacKenzie Scott said she gave $7.1 billion to nonprofits in 2025, a sharp rise from her recent yearly donations.
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Trump’s new tax rules could reduce billionaire giving by billions of dollars, and middle-class donors are unlikely to make up the gap.
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MacKenzie Scott gave Northern Oklahoma College a $17 million gift, the largest donation in the school’s history, to support students and future programs.
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MacKenzie Scott gave $60 million to the Center for Disaster Philanthropy as philanthropists try to help fill gaps left by federal cuts to disaster aid.
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MacKenzie Scott gave $40 million to the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, making a major new donation to preserve Black history and support DEI-related work.
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MacKenzie Scott gave $70 million to UNCF to help strengthen historically Black colleges and universities through a new endowment effort.
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A philanthropy expert says MacKenzie Scott shows a better way for billionaires to give by being more strategic, more hands-off, and less controlling than many other big donors.
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Melinda French Gates said MacKenzie Scott helped reassure her that raising wealthy children with limits and allowances was the right approach.
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MacKenzie Scott’s donated Beverly Hills mansion was sold for $37 million, adding to her record of large gifts to housing and arts causes.
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MacKenzie Scott said she has given nearly $2 billion more to 343 groups, bringing her total reported giving to about $14 billion.
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MacKenzie Scott gave the Urban League of Louisiana $5.7 million, the group’s largest gift ever, to help expand its work on economic self-reliance and civil rights.
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MacKenzie Scott gave a record $84.5 million donation to Girl Scouts of the USA to help the group recover from pandemic losses and expand its programs.
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MacKenzie Scott gave $84.5 million to Girl Scouts of the USA, giving the group its largest individual donation and helping it recover after pandemic-era membership losses.
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MacKenzie Scott donated two Beverly Hills mansions worth about $55 million to a housing charity to help expand affordable housing in Los Angeles.
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MacKenzie Scott gave $122.6 million to Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, a major unrestricted gift meant to expand youth mentoring.
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MacKenzie Scott gave $436 million to Habitat for Humanity International and its U.S. affiliates to help expand affordable housing.
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MacKenzie Scott gave $281 million to Boys & Girls Clubs of America and 62 local clubs, marking her largest public gift so far.
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