In total, since 2020, billionaire philanthropist and ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, Scott has donated $17.2 billion to 2,325 nonprofit organizations, according to a database maintained by Yield Giving.
Despite Elon Musk’s criticism, MacKenzie Scott has doubled her initial $250 million pledge and announced a massive $640 million donation to be distributed to numerous organisations.
Out of the more than 6,000 organisations that applied, 361 got money from Scott’s Yield Giving organisation in collaboration with the charity Lever for Change; 279 of these organisations received $2 million, while the remaining 82 received $1 million each.
Scott’s hefty donation comes a few weeks after Musk criticised her charity work.
‘Super rich ex-wives who hate their former spouse’ should be listed among ‘Reasons that Western Civilization died,’ Musk said in a now-deleted X post on March 6.
Musk did not mention a reason for specifically targeting Scott, although he has been a harsh critic of efforts of…