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MacKenzie Scott connected Tuesday gave much of her wealthiness distant to nonprofits.
Across nan country, 361 nonprofits collectively received $640 cardinal through grants made by her aid vehicle, Yield Giving.
They had sought nan donations from Scott through an "open call" that Lever for Change facilitated, Lever for Change said connected its website. The unfastened telephone fielded over 6,000 applications successful total.
Jeff Bezos, laminitis and main executive serviceman of Amazon.com Inc., and his woman MacKenzie Bezos, get for greeting sessions astatine nan 28th yearly Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference successful Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S., connected Saturday, July 10, 201 (Matthew Staver/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Scott said each of nan nonprofits that yet received a assistance successful her latest charitable giving had been "elevated by adjacent organizations and a round-2 information sheet for their outstanding activity advancing nan voices and opportunities of individuals and families of meager aliases humble means, and groups who person met pinch favoritism and different systemic obstacles."
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Recipients were located crossed 38 states, arsenic good arsenic others successful Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, according to Lever for Change.
The size of nan grants Scott sent were either $1 cardinal aliases $2 million.
Lever for Change said nan scheme had primitively been to dole retired 250 grants worthy $1 million, but "the philanthropist squad decided to grow nan awardee excavation and nan grant amount."
Scott, whose reported nett worthy hovered astir $35.7 billion, had provided complete $17.2 cardinal successful charitable donations done Yield Giving. She first launched nan website for her philanthropic statement successful December 2022.
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Her monolithic individual luck stems from Amazon, nan institution that her ex-husband Jeff Bezos founded and that she holds a liking in, according to Forbes. The e-commerce giant had a worth of $1.83 trillion connected a marketplace capitalization ground arsenic of Tuesday.
(L-R) CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos and writer MacKenzie Bezos be nan Amazon Studios Oscar Celebration astatine Delilah connected February 26, 2017 successful West Hollywood, California. (Todd Williamson/Getty Images for Amazon / Getty Images)
Scott signed onto nan Giving Pledge successful 2019. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, his erstwhile woman Melinda French Gates and Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett group up that inaugural for nan ultra-wealthy to springiness distant 50% of their luck astir 14 years ago.
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"In summation to immoderate assets life has nurtured successful me, I person a disproportionate magnitude of money to share," she wrote astatine nan time. "My attack to philanthropy will proceed to beryllium thoughtful."
She said she would "keep astatine it until nan safe is empty."
