When Jeff Bezos divorced his wife, it was billed the most expensive divorce in history. As part of the deal, MacKenzie Scott received 25% of Amazon stock — worth around $36 billion at the time.
Mackenzie Scott has donated over 17.3 billion dollars of her and Bezos' divorce settlement. She just released a 2024 update.
So, where is the money going?
Top focus area: Race and ethnicity (39%)
Bottom focus area: Art (1-2%)Here's the giving by focus area:
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— Alex (@notcomplex_) March 20, 2024
That’s a lot of walking-around money. But instead of buying herself a cybertruck and moving to the Palisades, Scott has been busy making donations instead. To date, she has given away an estimated $17.3 billion to philanthropic causes since her divorce in 2019. But where, exactly, is the money going? According to a new post on X, the biggest chunk of donations has gone to race and ethnicity initiatives. Scott has donated over a billion dollars to the cause, dwarfing any other area by some margin. Let’s just hope Shaun King wasn’t the beneficiary…
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