MacKenzie Scott, the billionaire novelist who founded Amazon with her now ex-husband, Jeff Bezos, doubled a recent philanthropic pledge to non-profits with $640 million donated across more than 360 small groups. Some groups appear to be generic charities with well-meaning missions that transcend ideological politics, such as feeding the hungry. Most, however, are overwhelmingly dedicated to far-left causes with programs designed to promote “equity” in areas of climate change, immigration, and transgenderism.
Last year, Scott, a billionaire philanthropist who briefly became the richest woman in the world upon her 2019 divorce, issued an “open call” for community non-profits to solicit contributions from her. Scott thanked Lever for Change, the group facilitating the donation spree, in a statement Tuesday.
“From a pool of over 6,000 applicants, each of these 361 community-led non-profits was elevated by peer organizations and a round-2 evaluation panel for their outstanding work advancing the voices and opportunities of individuals and families of meager or modest means, and groups who have met with discrimination and other systemic obstacles,” Scott said. “Grateful to Lever for Change and 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 in their communities.”
The statement posted to Yield Giving, Scott’s organization to distribute her personal fortune, includes a list of groups that received large sums of money from the billionaire’s donation campaign. Groups include non-profit enterprises whose names make clear they are committed to far-left visions of
