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March 23, 2024, 8:26 a.m. ET
A lot of the $640 million in new donations being awarded by billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott – ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will go to nonprofits preventing for legal migrants, transgender rights and different causes.
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A lot of the $640 million in new charitable donations Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife MacKenzie Scott is shelling out will go to nonprofits pushing excessive left-wing causes, together with serving to migrants who commit crimes and boosting male-born transgender athletes who wish to compete in opposition to ladies.
Scott will present 67 migrant-advocacy organizations a mixed $122 million for authorized assist and different help, in response to an evaluation of 361 awards she introduced Tuesday via her basis Yield Giving.
The large winners embrace the Florida Immigrant Coalition, which vehemently opposes Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ crackdown on migrants who commit crimes; and the Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition, which is preventing that state’s efforts to extend illegal-migrant enforcement. Each scored $2 million awards.
Earlier than saying the $640M in new donations being awarded to nonprofits, Scott had already given away $16.5B of the fortune she got here into after divorcing Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in 2019. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP
Scott’s different awards embrace $117 million to 67 prisoner-advocacy teams and different organizations serving to jailbirds and ex-cons; and $72 million to 43 teams selling “gender identification,” “sexual orientation” and different LGBTQ causes – reminiscent of championing the rights of organic boys who determine as transgender women to compete in feminine sports activities.
She’s additionally earmarked one other $18 million to 10 teams pushing clear vitality.
“Bezos’ spouse is utilizing the income he made via capitalism to [fund] the rope that may dangle capitalism,” mentioned Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow on the conservative Heritage Basis, drawing on former Soviet revolutionary chief Vladimir Lenin’s famed quote: “’The capitalists will promote us the rope with which we are going to dangle them.”
Scott’s use of Bezos’ cash is yet one more instance of woke philanthropic teams created via the fruits of capitalism – such because the leftist Rockefeller Basis – utilizing their {dollars} to undermine free-market rules, added Gonzalez.
“These items that she’s donating cash to – whether or not it’s transgender concepts, serving to illegals, prisoner rights, local weather change – they’re all attempting to rework our system away from capitalism,” he mentioned.
Scott — an writer of two novels and the third wealthiest girl within the US — was married to Bezos for practically 25 years and has 4 kids with him. She parted methods with Bezos in 2019 with a jaw-dropping $38.3 billion in Amazon inventory.
Florida Immigrant Coalition, which vehemently opposes Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis crackdown on migrants who commit crimes, obtained a $2M award from Scott. Common Pictures Group through Getty Pictures
Previous to Tuesday’s announcement, she handed out $16.5 billion of her fortune to teams she and her staff researched and chosen.
In December 2022, she launched a database of her charity below the identify Yield Giving.
Scott then started soliciting purposes from community-led nonprofits searching for monetary help. Candidates had been required to have budgets between $1 and $5 million and missions “to advance the voices and alternatives of people and households of meager or modest means,” Yield Giving mentioned on its web site.
Scott’s awards introduced Tuesday embrace $72M particularly for LGBTQ causes. RS-photography – inventory.adobe.com
The $640 million awarded by Yield Giving throughout its first spherical of handouts is greater than double what Scott pledged, with 361 of the 6,350 charities who utilized getting awards of both $1 million or $2 million.
Megan Peterson, government director of Gender Justice, cheered Scott’s $2 million “present” to her nonprofit, saying in a press release it “couldn’t come at a extra essential time” with “a conservative authorized motion threatening our elementary rights right here in Minnesota, North Dakota, and throughout america.”
“Constructing and sustaining a world freed from gender limitations requires group group, training, and altering the methods we speak and take into consideration gender,” added Peterson, whose group just lately received lawsuits relating to entry to emergency contraception and the rights of trans youth to play sports activities that aren’t their organic gender.
Of the $72 million Scott handed out for LGBTQ causes, at the very least $16 million went to nonprofits main the cost for transgender athletes in feminine sports activities, together with ACLU of Alabama, Baltimore-based Soccer with out Borders and OutFront Minnesota.
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/Brooklyn), who has backed laws searching for to take care of equity in feminine sports activities by guaranteeing organic boys aren’t taking part, mentioned Scott’s spending on such lefty causes is “unlucky — but it surely’s her private cash.”
“Democrats working cities throughout America do that on daily basis with our cash, and that’s the true battle we have to hold preventing,” she mentioned.
Bezos’ ex-wife donated tens of millions undocumented individuals, former prisoners, LGBTQ organizations, and clear vitality initiatives. New York Publish
In a notice on her web site, Scott wrote she’s grateful to Lever for Change, the group that managed the award-selection course of, and evaluators who’re very important “brokers of change.”
Reps for Lever for Change and Scott didn’t return messages.
Elon Musk blasted Scott for her previous charitable donations in an X publish he has since deleted: “Tremendous wealthy ex-wives who hate their former partner ought to . . . be listed amongst ‘Causes that Western Civilization died.’”
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