MacKenzie Scott’s Latest Round of Giving Totals $443.5 Million So Far

When MacKenzie Scott announced her fourth round of big gifts to charity in December, she left it up to the nonprofits to decide whether to publicize the news and reveal how much she gave them. Since her December announcement, about two dozen groups have done so.

As of last week, the Chronicle’s tally of the donations Scott gave those groups totals $443.5 million, adding to the more than $8 billion she has given to at least 800 nonprofits since the summer of 2020, when she announced her first round of big giving.

Six charities announced big gifts from MacKenzie Scott in the past two weeks.

• The Collaborative for Gender and Reproductive Equity received $25 million to back its efforts to advance gender, reproductive, and racial equity.
• The Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science and the early-literacy group Reading Partners each got $20 million.
• YouthBuild USA, which offers leadership-development programs for teenagers and young adults who are unemployed and not in school, received $13 million.
• United States of Care got $8 million to back its policy work to ensure that all people, regardless of their health status or income level, will have access to affordable and good quality health care.
• Oakland Reach, a literacy group that operates after-school programs, received $3 million.

Those announcements followed a collection of about a dozen others made early this year that the Chronicle highlighted last month, including the biggest gift so far of the batch, $133.5 million to Communities in Schools..

Judging from the groups that have publicized the gifts, Scott is continuing to award unrestricted donations to often overlooked and underfunded charities that support marginalized people, largely in the United States.

Melissa Behling, Operation Fresh Start YouthBuild

She has also focused significant sums on the umbrella groups that serve and advocate for nonprofits, grant makers, and donors. Last summer for example, she gave roughly 70 local, regional, and national “infrastructure” organizations large donations. As with so much of Scott’s giving over the last two years, many of those groups included social- and racial-justice and equity components in their work.

Much of Scott’s giving has had a ripple effect on the nonprofit world because so many of the organizations that received her money turned around and gave some of it to much smaller groups.

The Chronicle is keeping a tally of all of the announced Scott gifts, including amounts that beneficiaries have disclosed. We’ll update this list regularly; if your organization received a donation, let us know.

To see all of Scott’s publicized donations and to learn about big donations from other donors, see our database of gifts of $1 million or more, which is updated regularly.