MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has pledged to offer her cash to charity “until the safe is empty.” That’s good news for plenty of radical left-wing organizations.
The billionaire divorcée this week detailed $14 billion in donations she has given to greater than 1,600 nonprofit teams since 2019. The giveaway makes Scott one of many greatest philanthropists on this planet, rivaling Warren Buffett and Bill Gates. Scott, who lined her pockets with $38 billion in a divorce settlement after Bezos ran off with CNN’s Lauren Sánchez, has stated she would direct her giving towards organizations doing “transformative work” within the areas of race, gender, local weather change, democracy, and financial inequality. In weblog posts explaining her philosophy, Scott lamented that “a civilization this imbalanced is not only unjust, but also unstable.”
Scott, who divorced her second husband earlier this yr, has contributed to conventional charities just like the Boys & Girls Club, the NAACP, and others. But she has additionally backed teams that push extremist views on the problems of transgender rights, race, and Israel.
Scott funds the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, an advocacy group that goals to set authorized precedents to pressure insurance coverage firms and Medicaid to cowl medical therapy for transgender individuals. The fund advocates for protection of “chest surgery for transgender minors,” a radical therapy that has been outlawed in a number of states.
She contributed to the Movement for Black Lives, which seeks to defund police departments and backs a boycott of Israel. The group has referred to Israel as an “apartheid state” that commits “genocide” in opposition to Palestinians. In 2020, Scott contributed to the National Bail Fund Network, a gaggle that backs the Minnesota Freedom Fund, a corporation that has posted bail for a number of murderers and pedophiles.
Scott has additionally despatched tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} to overseas charities, together with some aligned with America’s adversaries.
She gave $20 million in 2020 to the Energy Foundation China, a Beijing-based local weather change suppose tank with hyperlinks to the Chinese authorities. The group, led by a former Chinese authorities official, promotes China’s Belt and Road Initiative, the worldwide infrastructure program that Beijing has used to broaden its financial, navy, and diplomatic affect overseas. The basis awarded grants final yr to the Belt and Road Initiative Center, a suppose tank overseen by China’s National Reform and Development Commission, the Chinese Communist Party’s financial planning fee.
American officers have warned that Belt and Road poses a nationwide safety risk to the United States. In 2019, Sen. John Cornyn (R., Texas) stated in a congressional listening to that China used Belt and Road as a “trojan horse” to arrange navy installations in Djibouti.
Scott encourages different philanthropists to donate to her causes.
“I recommend these organizations to anyone similarly excited by the idea of empowering leaders well-positioned to accelerate progress,” she wrote. “And every one of them would benefit from more allies looking to share wealth of all types and sizes, including money, volunteer time, supplies, advocacy, publicity, networks and relationships, collaboration, encouragement, and trust.”