MacKenzie Scott is keeping to her word and donating a majority of her wealth. The former wife of Jeff Bezos has an ongoing streak of charitable donations and isn’t stopping anytime soon.
On Jan. 30, MacKenzie Scott donated $59 million to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).
“This is a remarkable gift for NAMI,” CEO Daniel H. Gillison Jr. said in a statement. “It reflects great confidence in our mission, the work happening across the Alliance, and how we’ve continued to lead with our values. We are deeply grateful to MacKenzie Scott for her continued trust and partnership.”
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The philanthropist also recently made a $45 million donation to The Trevor Project on Jan. 13, an organization that focuses on suicide prevention efforts for LGBTQ youth. It currently stands as the largest donation in the organization’s history.
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Scott announced that she gave $7.1 billion to nonprofit groups in 2025. This represents an increase from her charitable donations of the past few years, and it stands as one of the largest single-year totals donated in history.
On an essay on her website, the philanthropist explained, “This dollar total will likely be reported in the news, but any dollar amount is a vanishingly tiny fraction of the personal expressions of care being shared into communities this year.” She previously donated $2.6 billion in 2024 and $2.1 billion in 2023. She’s donated $26.3 billion since 2019.
She added, “The peace-fostering byproducts of one unexpected act of kindness toward a stranger of a different background or beliefs might inspire a beneficial chain reaction that goes on for years. Respect, understanding, insight, empathy, forgiveness, inspiration – all of these are meaningful contributions to others.”
After their divorce, Scott’s net worth is reported to be around $32.5 billion, according to Forbes. Jeff Bezos still owns around 9% of Amazon, with his net worth currently reported as $230.2 billion.
All of this comes after reports that Bezos, who married journalist Lauren Sánchez in 2025, was reportedly still embroiled in a legal battle with his new wife’s estranged brother, Michael Sánchez. In Aug. 2025, Page Six reported that the couple’s legal team filed a motion in California Superior Court demanding that Michael Sánchez pay $182,374 in attorney’s fees and $8,182 in legal costs, “incurred in connection with (1) her successful Special Motion to Strike, and (2) this Motion for Attorney’s Fees and Costs.”
The lawsuit comes after Michael Sánchez, who denied responsibility for exposing Lauren and Jeff Bezos’s relationship, sued for defamation. The Los Angeles County Superior Court ruled in Bezos’s favor, with the Amazon founder requesting that Sánchez cover all legal fees.
