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MacKenzie Scott Gave $7 Billion in 2025 but Was Left Off Chronicle of Philanthropy Top-Donor List
Scott's gifts accounted for one-third of all megagifts last year and brought her five-year total to $26.2 billion. Total U.S. philanthropic donations reached $617.2 billion.
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MacKenzie Scott donated about $7 billion in 2025, according to data from Giving USA and the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy reported by Fortune. Her gifts brought her cumulative total to $26.2 billion over five years and represented one-third of the $19.2 billion in megagifts made by all donors that year.
Other large 2025 donors included Michael Bloomberg at $4.3 billion, Bill Gates at $3.7 billion, Warren Buffett at $1.34 billion, and Susan and Michael Dell at nearly $1 billion.
Total U.S. charitable giving reached $617.2 billion, a 5.7 percent increase from the previous year. Scott did not appear on the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s 2025 Philanthropy 50 list of top donors. The Chronicle attributed the omission to her practice of declining to provide information about gifts to donor-advised funds.
Scott signed the Giving Pledge after her divorce from Jeff Bezos. Her net worth remains nearly $35 billion. In an essay published December 9 she wrote that generosity and kindness engage the same pleasure centers in the brain as sex, food, and receiving gifts.
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