MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, announced that she channeled some $640 million to 361 predominantly left-leaning nonprofits.
Yield Giving, the nonprofit launched by the multibillionaire, had solicited applications from more than 6,000 community nonprofits before selecting the winners. Scott remarked that she is thankful for “everyone on the evaluation and implementation teams for their roles in creating this pathway to support for people working to improve access to foundational resources.”
Various analyses of the gifts have revealed that Scott donated largely to left-wing organizations, including those which support illegal aliens with legal assistance and other resources. Roughly $122 million will be directed toward sixty-seven such advocacy organizations, including the Florida Immigrant Coalition and the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition.
Scott also donated $72 million to forty-three groups advocating for homosexuality and transgenderism, as well as $18 million to ten organizations pushing for green energy.
The donations are among several contributions Scott has made to activist organizations since 2019, the year she and Bezos separated. Scott received some $38.3 billion in Amazon stock, rendering her the third wealthiest woman in the United States. She has donated more than $17.3 billion to more than 2,300 organizations to “use as they see fit for the benefit of others.”
Scott previously broke the record for the largest gift from an individual donor in the history of Planned Parenthood, directing a $275 million contribution to the abortion entity two years ago.
“We are incredibly grateful for Ms. Scott’s extraordinary philanthropic investment in Planned Parenthood, as a critical part of the public health infrastructure,” Planned Parenthood President Alexis McGill Johnson claimed in a statement about the gift. “There is no question that we are living through a crisis for sexual and reproductive health and rights in this country.”