The $30 million donation by Scott was announced Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, in a post that detailed the nearly $4.2 billion in gifts given to nonprofit organizations by the philanthropist in 2020.
(Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)SEATTLE – MacKenzie Scott, philanthropist, author and former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has announced that she has given away $4.1 billion in the past four months to hundreds of organizations as part of a giving pledge she announced last year.
In Houston, the YMCA of Greater Houston announced that it will receive $18 million from Scott.
The gift is the YMCA of Greater Houston’s single largest donation in its 134-year history.
Scott announced her pandemic-era philanthropy in a Medium post Tuesday, The Seattle Times reported.