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more than $640 million in new charitable donations MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is turning to nonprofits that support far-left causes, including helping immigrants who commit crimes and promoting transgender male athletes who want to compete against women.
Scott will provide 67 immigrant advocacy organizations a total of $122 million for legal and other assistance, according to an analysis of 361 awards it announced Tuesday. Through her “Giving the Yield” Foundation.
Among the big winners was the Florida Immigrant Coalition, which Strongly opposes Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' crackdown on immigrants who commit crimes; and the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition, which is fighting that state's efforts to increase enforcement of laws related to illegal immigrants. They both took home $2 million in prizes.
Scott's other awards include $117 million to 67 prisoner advocacy groups and other organizations that help prisoners and formerly incarcerated people; And $72 million to 43 groups promoting “gender identity,” “sexual orientation” and other issues related to the LGBT community — such as advocating for the rights of biological boys who identify as transgender girls to compete in women’s sports.
It also allocated another $18 million to 10 groups working to promote clean energy.
“Bezos’ wife is using the profits he has made through capitalism for her own gain [fund] “The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them,” said Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, citing a famous quote by former Soviet revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin.
Gonzalez added that Scott's use of Bezos' money is another example of charitable groups created through the fruits of capitalism — such as the left-wing Rockefeller Foundation — using their dollars to undermine free market principles.
“These things that you donate money to — whether it's transgender ideas, or helping illegal immigrants, or prisoners' rights, or climate change — are all trying to shift our system away from capitalism,” he said.
Scott — the author of two novels and the third-richest woman in the United States — was married to Bezos for nearly 25 years and has four children with him. She parted ways with Bezos in 2019 with a staggering $38.3 billion in Amazon stock.
Before Tuesday's announcement, she distributed $16.5 billion of her wealth to groups that she and her team had researched and selected.
In December 2022, it was launched A database of her charitable works Under the name of tender giving.
Scott then began soliciting applications from community-led nonprofits seeking financial assistance. Applicants were required to have budgets between $1 million and $5 million and a mission to “advance the voices and opportunities of individuals and families with little or modest means,” Yield Giving said on its website.
The $640 million awarded by Yield Giving during its first round of grants is more than double what Scott pledged, with 361 of the 6,350 charities that applied receiving awards of $1 million or $2 million.
Megan Peterson, Executive Director of Gender Justice She welcomed Scott's $2 million “gift” to her nonprofit, saying in a statement that it “could not come at a more important time” amid “a conservative legal movement that threatens our fundamental rights here in Minnesota, North Dakota and across the United States.”
“Building and sustaining a world free of gender barriers requires community organizing, education, and changing the ways we talk and think about gender,” added Peterson, whose group recently won lawsuits related to access to emergency contraception and the rights of transgender youth to play sports. . Which is not their biological sex.
Of the $72 million Scott distributed to LGBTQ causes, at least $16 million went to nonprofits leading the charge for transgender athletes in women's sports, including the American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama and Baltimore-based Football Without Borders , and OutFront Minnesota.
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/Brooklyn). Supported legislation that seeks to maintain fairness in women's sports By ensuring that biological children do not participate, Scott said that Scott's spending on such left-wing causes is “unfortunate — but it's her personal money.”
“The Democrats who run cities across America do it every day with our money, and this is the real fight we need to keep fighting,” she said.
In a note on its websiteScott wrote that she is grateful to Lever for Change, the organization that managed the award selection process, and the residents who are vital “agents of change.”
Representatives for Lever for Change and Scott did not respond to messages.
Elon Musk criticized Scott over her past charitable donations in a post . . To be included among the “causes of the death of Western civilization.”
“Beer aficionado. Gamer. Alcohol fanatic. Evil food trailblazer. Avid bacon maven.”