When Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his ex-wife Mackenzie Scott divorced in 2019, Scott left with $36 billion dollars worth of Amazon shares. For the past six years, she’s been pretty generous with the money, and that generosity has not ceased.
On Wednesday, Oct. 15, reports announced Scott’s record-breaking $63 million donation to gifted Morgan State University. It’s the largest amount of money that the school has ever been given at once, but this isn’t the first time she’s given the third-largest HBCU a “transformative contribution,” as the school called it.
With this second donation, Scott has now gifted the school a total of $103 million over the past five years.
Scott is known to give generous donations that are unrestricted, giving the school full control of how to best use the mon