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Most of them $640 million in new charitable donations Mackenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, will go to nonprofits that promote far-left causes, including helping immigrants who commit crimes and promoting transgender athletes who were born as male who want to compete against women.
Scott will give $122 million in legal aid and other assistance to 67 immigrant-advocacy organizations, according to an analysis of 361 awards he announced Tuesday. Yielding through his trust.
Big winners include the Florida Immigrant Coalition Strongly opposes Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' crackdown on immigrants who commit crimes; and the Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition, which fights against the state's efforts to increase illegal-immigrant enforcement. Both received $2 million in awards.
Scott's other awards include $117 million to 67 inmate-advocacy groups and other organizations that help jailbirds and ex-convicts; and $72 million to 43 groups promoting “gender identity,” “sexual orientation” and other LGBTQ causes — such as winning the rights of biological boys who identify as transgender to compete in girls' sports.
He has allocated another $18 million to 10 groups promoting clean energy.
“Bezos's wife is using the profits he made through capitalism [fund] The rope that hangs capitalism,” said Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, drawing on a famous quote from former Soviet revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin: “'The capitalists will sell us the rope and hang us.'
Scott's use of Bezos' money is another example of philanthropic groups created by the benefits of capitalism — such as the left-wing Rockefeller Foundation — using their dollars to undermine free-market policies, Gonzalez added.
“He's donating money — it's to transgender ideas, helping illegals, prisoners' rights, climate change — all trying to change our system away from capitalism,” he said.
Scott – the author of two novels and the third-richest woman in America – has been married to Bezos for nearly 25 years, with whom she has four children. He parted ways with Bezos in 2019, shedding $38.3 billion in Amazon stock.
Before Tuesday's announcement, he gave $16.5 billion of his fortune to groups he and his team researched and selected.
In December 2022, he a His charity database In the name of yielding.
Scott then began soliciting applications from community-led non-profit organizations seeking financial support. Applicants must have budgets between $1 million and $5 million and work to “advance the voices and opportunities of individuals and families in non-trivial or modest ways,” Yield Giving said on its website.
Of the $640 million YieldGiving awarded during its first round of handouts, more than double what Scott pledged, 361 of the 6,350 charities that applied received awards of $1 million or $2 million.
Megan Peterson, Executive Director of Gender Justice, Scott cheered the $2 million “gift” to his nonprofit, saying in a statement that it “couldn't come at a more important time” with “a conservative legal movement threatening our basic rights in Minnesota, North Dakota and across America.”
“Building and sustaining a world without gender barriers requires changing social structure, education and the ways we talk and think about gender,” said Peterson, who recently won cases related to access to emergency contraception and the rights of trans youth to play sports. It is not their biological sex.
Of the $72 million Scott gave to LGBTQ causes, at least $16 million went to nonprofits for transgender athletes in women's sports, including the ACLU of Alabama, Baltimore-based Soccer with Borders and Outfront Minnesota.
Representative. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/Brooklyn), who Supported legislation to maintain fairness in women's sports Confirming that biological children were not involved, Scott said it was “unfortunate – but it was his personal money” to spend on such left-wing causes.
“Democrats who run cities across America do this every day with our money, and that's the real battle we have to continue to fight,” he said.
In a note on his websiteScott wrote to Lever for Change, the organization that managed the award-selection process, and to thank the judges who were essential “agents of change.”
Representatives for Leverage for Change and Scott did not return messages.
Elon Musk fired Scott for his past charitable donations in an X post: “Super rich ex-wives who hate their ex-wives . . . Listed in 'Causes of the Death of Western Civilization'.
