MacKenzie Scott revealed her total charitable donations for 2025
Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott announced the final figure of her charitable donations in 2025; These donations gave a total of $7.17 billion to approximately 225 organizations. blog post It was published on Tuesday.
“This dollar total will likely make the news, but any dollar amount is a vanishingly small fraction of the self-care expressions shared in communities this year,” Scott wrote.
Scott’s 2025 donation brings his total giving since 2019 to $26.3 billion, according to past public announcements of his charitable donations. This year’s donations went to a wide variety of nonprofit organizations. several historically Black colleges and universitiesand organizations focused on issues such as poverty, social injustice, and climate change.
Scott’s updated philanthropy tally puts him behind fellow billionaires Warren Buffett and Bill Gates in terms of lifetime giving. Forbes. Forbes still predictions Scott, who became one of the richest women in the world after her divorce from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in 2019, has a net worth of $29.9 billion.
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After his divorce, Scott signed Giving CommitmentHe pledged to donate most of his fortune during his lifetime. He tasked a team of consultants with helping him increase his charitable giving by identifying “organizations with strong leadership teams and results” in a wide range of areas of social need, he wrote in an op-ed. 2020 blog post.
In particular, he wrote, he wanted to “pay special attention to those operating in communities facing high levels of food insecurity, high levels of racial inequality, high local poverty rates, and low access to philanthropic capital.”
In Tuesday’s article, Scott wrote about putting forgiveness in perspective and quoted: Data from Giving USAIt reported in June that Americans will donate more than $590 billion in charitable donations in 2024. Scott wrote that most of the country’s philanthropy (monetary or otherwise) occurs on a relatively small scale.
“More than 70 percent of Americans report giving both labor and money to people they know, with half reporting doing the same for strangers,” Scott wrote, adding: “It’s easy to focus on methods of civic engagement that make news, but it’s hard to imagine the importance of the things we do every day with our own minds and hearts.”
Scott talked about the examples of generosity he received before he became rich, which inspired his recent philanthropy. He wrote about “a local dentist who offered me free dentistry when he saw me fixing a broken tooth with denture glue in college” and about his college roommate at Princeton University who “found me crying and was tempted to loan me a thousand dollars so I wouldn’t have to drop out my sophomore year.”
That roommate Jeannie Ringo TarkentonScott stated that he founded Funding U, a student lender that offers loans to low-income students without the need for a co-signer.
Scott highlighted these examples as he encouraged civic engagement in countless forms, from financial gifts to random acts of kindness: “Respect, understanding, insight, empathy, forgiveness, inspiration—these are all meaningful contributions to others.”
Scott’s blog post did not detail how or why he chose any of the hundreds of organizations he supports in 2025. One longstanding aspect of his donations stands out unlike other billionaire philanthropists: His donations often come with no strings attached, meaning organizations are free to use the money as they see fit.
Her goal, she wrote, was to “de-emphasize privileged voices” like hers and “leave the focus to others.” 2021 blog post.
“People fighting against inequalities deserve to be center stage in stories about the change they create,” Scott wrote in that post. “This is equally, perhaps especially, true when their work is financed by wealth.”
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