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Billionaire MacKenzie Scott gifts UNCF $70 million for historically Black colleges and universities

With a Renewed Vote of Confidence, MacKenzie Scott Awards Morgan State University a Transformative $63 Million Gift

by Morgan State U
OCTOBER 15, 2025

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With a Renewed Vote of Confidence, MacKenzie Scott Awards Morgan State University a Transformative $63 Million Gift

Historic Donation Marks the Second Major Unrestricted Contribution from the Noted Philanthropist in Five Years, Reinforcing Morgan’s position as One of the Nation’s Fastest-Growing and Most impactful Public Research Universities
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In an extraordinary reaffirmation of Morgan State University’s mission and trajectory, philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has awarded the University a $63 million unrestricted gift, her second transformative contribution to Morgan in less than five years. The latest donation brings Scott’s total giving to the University to $103 million, a powerful endorsement of Morgan’s demonstrated capacity for growth, stewardship, and societal impact...

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MacKenzie Scott

MacKenzie Scott is #28 on Forbes' 2025 Forbes 400 list. Read more about MacKenzie Scott, their experience, their asset summary, and more here.
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  • MacKenzie Scott is a philanthropist, author and the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, to whom she was married for 25 years. As part of their 2019 divorce, she received a 4% stake in the online retailer.
  • In May 2019, shortly after she announced the terms of the divorce on Twitter, she signed the Giving Pledge, promising to give away at least half of her wealth over the course of her lifetime.
  • On a website called Yield Giving, Scott shares details of the $19.3 billion she has given to more than 2,500 nonprofits.
  • Scott employs a "no strings attached" style of giving, wherein the nonprofits to which she donates have full control over how to best deploy the new funds.
  • Scott, who has published two novels, was a student of author Toni Morrison at Princeton and worked as a research assistant for her.
 
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Inside MacKenzie Scott’s ‘No Strings Attached’ Philanthropy

A representative for MacKenzie Scott—currently the world’s 19th richest person with a net worth of $59 billion—had a message to deliver.
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Inside MacKenzie Scott’s ‘No Strings Attached’ Philanthropy: ‘I Was In Tears’

Nonprofit leaders told Forbes what it’s like to be on the receiving end of Scott's “transformational” unrestricted giving—and what it means for their work helping people in need.
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blackbull1970 said:
MacKenzie Scott has sold nearly half of her stake in Amazon, as the billionaire philanthropist casually donates over $110 million to DEI causes

With a $32 billion estimated net worth, Scott obtained most of her wealth after divorcing Bezos in 2019 and has pledged to give away the majority of her wealth. After ending up with about 4% of the tech giant, she’s given away $19 billion in gifts to more than 2,000 nonprofits over the past five years. Since their divorce, Amazon shares have more than doubled.

Jessica Coacci
October 15, 2025


…Scott’s no stranger to philanthropy. The median gift size of the thousands of donations she’s made since her 2019 divorce is roughly $5 million—and many of her recent philanthropic efforts have been to DEI causes.

One of her most recent donations include a $42 million gift to 10,000 Degrees, a Bay Area nonprofit expanding college access for low-income and largely non-white students.

This was on top of her recent $70 million gift to historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) through the non-profit UNCF. The program, launched in 2o21, aims to help HBCUs close a funding gap compared to white or elite institutions, aiming to provide long-term financial stability and a permanent revenue stream for minority schools.

Over the years, other diverse causes the billionaire has donated to range from a $84 million gift to Girl Scouts, $20 million to Vermont’s Champlain Housing Trust, $436 million to Habitat for Humanity, and $275 million to Planned Parenthood. She also previously gave UNCF $10 million in 2020.

Signing the Giving Pledge in 2020—a philanthropic initiative founded in 2010 by Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates, and Warren Buffett—her donations have so far outpaced many of her peers. The median gift size of the thousands of donations she’s made since her 2019 divorce is roughly $5 million.

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After the billionaire philanthropist Mackenzie Scott ended up with about 4% of Amazon, she’s given away $19 billion over the past five years, with over $100 million to DEI causes in the past few months.​
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84 million to the Girl Scouts? Bitch probably wants free cookies, no deal, keep your 84 million!
 

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