Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott’s $7 billion in donations helped power a record year for U.S. philanthropy, with overall charitable giving reaching an all-time high of $617.2 billion in 2025.
MacKenzie Scott Led America’s Biggest Philanthropic Gifts
Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon.com, Inc. founder Jeff Bezos, accounted for more than one-third of the nation’s largest charitable gifts in 2025, Fortune reported on Thursday.
According to data from Giving USA and the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy shared with the publication, Scott donated approximately $7 billion in 2025.
Her contributions represented roughly one-third of the $19.2 billion in megagifts made during the year.
