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most of $640 million in new charitable donations Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife MacKenzie Scott is doling out funds intended for nonprofits that advance far-left causes, including helping immigrants who commit crimes and boosting transgender athletes born to men who want to compete against women.
Scott will provide 67 immigrant advocacy organizations a combined total of $122 million for legal and other assistance, according to an analysis of 361 grants he announced Tuesday. through his Yield Giving foundation.
Big winners include the Florida Immigrant Coalition, which vehemently opposes Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ crackdown on immigrants who commit crimes; and the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition, which fights that state’s efforts to increase surveillance of illegal immigrants. Both won prizes of 2 million dollars.
Scott’s other awards include $117 million to 67 prisoner advocacy groups and other organizations that help prisoners and ex-convicts; and $72 million to 43 groups that promote “gender identity,” “sexual orientation,” and other LGBTQ causes, such as advocating for the rights of biological children who identify as transgender girls to compete in women’s sports.
It has also allocated another $18 million to 10 groups that promote clean energy.
“Bezos’ wife is using the profits she made through capitalism to (finance) the rope that will hang capitalism,” said Mike González, a fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, drawing on former Soviet revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin’s famous quote. : “‘The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”
Scott’s use of Bezos’ money is yet another example of philanthropic groups created from the fruits of capitalism, such as the leftist Rockefeller Foundation, using their dollars to undermine free market principles, González added.
“These things that she’s donating money to – whether it’s transgender ideas, helping illegals, prisoners’ rights, climate change – they’re all trying to transform our system away from capitalism,” he said.
Scott, the author of two novels and the third richest woman in the United States, was married to Bezos for almost 25 years and has four children with him. She parted ways with Bezos in 2019 with a staggering $38.3 billion in Amazon stock.
Before Tuesday’s announcement, she gave $16.5 billion of her fortune to groups she and her team researched and selected.
In December 2022, it launched a your charity database under the name Yield Giving.
Scott then began soliciting applications from community-led nonprofits seeking financial assistance. Applicants had to have budgets between $1 million and $5 million and missions “to advance the voices and opportunities of individuals and families of low or modest means,” Yield Giving said on its website.
The $640 million awarded by Yield Giving during its first round of giving is more than double what Scott promised, and 361 of the 6,350 charities that applied received awards of $1 or $2 million.
Megan Peterson, Executive Director of Gender Justice, applauded Scott’s $2 million “gift” to his nonprofit, saying in a statement that it “could not come at a more crucial time” with “a conservative legal movement threatening our fundamental rights here in Minnesota, North Dakota and throughout the United States.”
“Building and sustaining a world free of gender barriers requires community organizing, education, and changing the way we talk and think about gender,” added Peterson, whose group recently won lawsuits over access to emergency contraception and women’s rights. trans youth to play sports. that are not their biological gender.
Of the $72 million Scott gave to LGBTQ causes, at least $16 million went to nonprofits leading the fight for transgender athletes in women’s sports, including the ACLU of Alabama-based Soccer without Borders. in Baltimore, and OutFront Minnesota.
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/Brooklyn), who has He supported legislation that seeks to maintain equity in women’s sports. in ensuring that biological children do not participate, he said Scott’s spending on left-wing causes is “unfortunate, but it’s his personal money.”
“Democrats who run cities across America do this every day with our money, and that is the real battle we must continue to fight,” he said.
In a note on their websiteScott wrote that she is grateful to Lever for Change, the organization that managed the awards selection process, and to the reviewers who are vital “change agents.”
Representatives for Lever for Change and Scott did not return messages.
Elon Musk criticized Scott for his past charitable donations in a since-deleted X post: “Super rich ex-wives who hate their ex-spouse should. . . be among the ‘Reasons Why Western Civilization Died.'”