By Madeline HalpertBBC Information, New York41 minutes agoImage supply, Getty ImagesMacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is giving $640m (£504m) to non-profit organisations, greater than double her beforehand deliberate donations for the yr. The billionaire introduced this week she would give the cash to 361 small teams, out of the greater than 6,000 organisations that utilized for funding. She had initially deliberate to make 250 awards of $1m every this yr.Ms Scott has given away $16.5bn since divorcing Mr Bezos in 2019. She has a web value of $37.5bn in accordance with Forbes, which charges her because the fourth richest lady on the planet, and has pledged to offer away half of her wealth over the course of her life. Many of the cash comes from a 4% stake in Amazon that was included in her divorce settlement.Among the recipients embody the ACLU of Alabama, Justice for Migrant Girls, the Sacramento LGBT Group Middle and Psychological Well being Advocacy Companies. Ms Scott posted on social media that the cash had been given to teams “for his or her excellent work advancing the voices and alternatives of people and households of meager or modest means, and teams who’ve met with discrimination and different systemic obstacles”. This yr, Ms Scott broke together with her previous strategy of discovering organisations after which contacting them secretly to supply large, unrestricted presents.After a panel reviewed the entire purposes, she gave 279 non-profits $2m a bit, whereas 82 teams got $1m every. The “unimaginable work” of many candidates led the group overseeing the donations to extend the quantity and quantity of awards, in accordance with Lever for Change, the group managing the purposes.