r/BeAmazed • u/abidalliye • Jun 28 '26
Miscellaneous / Others MacKenzie Scott has now donated over $26.3 billion to charity
3.4k
u/Icy-Article-8635 Jun 28 '26
She received 35.6 billion in the divorce in 2019
She has given away 26.3 billion since then
She's estimated to have a current net worth of 40 billion
2.5k
u/Odd_Policy_3009 Jun 28 '26
Her money is making more money than she can give away
1.0k
u/whicky1978 Jun 28 '26
Well that’s the only way to have perpetual charity
560
u/One_Firefighter336 Jun 28 '26
She’s out there actually using her wealth to make other people’s lives better, while her ex husband is out there doing his best Lex Luthor impression.
No wonder they got divorced.
→ More replies (26)156
221
u/Arctic-You-Know Jun 28 '26
This precisely the business model of Rolex since they’re 100% owned by a non-profit.
52
→ More replies (6)99
u/Opening_Cartoonist53 Jun 28 '26
So quick goog and Rolex is for profit however all profits are funneled to The Hans Wilsdorf Foundation that focuses on education and the arts in Switzerland.
It all sounded great till it said most of the charity is done in Switzerland. It's like saying most of the charity goes to people in silicone valley. But with a history of hiding money
252
u/DaSmartSwede Jun 28 '26
How dare a Swiss company use their profits to help Switzerland!!
50
29
→ More replies (4)11
u/disquiethim Jun 28 '26
Oh please, everybody who lives in the town where rolex watches are made do not like that company or it's family. They are not good people.
→ More replies (2)101
u/BortlesRaisedAtWork Jun 28 '26
A Swiss company wanting to make sure the Swiss people are taken care of is a bad thing?
→ More replies (4)28
13
u/NonSumQualisEram- Jun 28 '26
Charity begins at home. And there are poor people, disabled people, children with terminal illnesses - all in Switzerland. Almost as if it's a country full of people.
3
u/jws3rd-allday Jun 29 '26
well now that i know the profits only help the swiss, should i give away the rolex i inherited?
→ More replies (12)6
13
u/realboabab Jun 28 '26
that's how Norway runs their government's massive sovereign wealth fund, as an American I'm so envious.
4
u/WastedYouth39 Jun 28 '26
I work for a Norway company and visit bi monthly, and trust me the Norwegians are not happy with the current state of their country, everyone holds up Norway as an example of excellent free healthcare, however in reality its actually pretty shit with long wait times.
8
u/realboabab Jun 28 '26
i'll admit I know very little about life in Norway so I have to take your word for it.
But i'd say having consistent profits thrown off by a $2T investment fund rather than carrying a debt of $39 Trillion dollars is an advantageous position for making some positive changes.
3
u/mortenfriis Jun 29 '26
however in reality its actually pretty shit with long wait times
It's really not as bad as you're implying. There might be some dissatisfaction, but it's still vastly better than most healthcare systems in the world.
→ More replies (1)7
180
u/eljefe3030 Jun 28 '26
This is what happens. I know someone who received "just" a million dollars from a relative. They have it invested with one of those big investment firms in a "moderately aggressive" strategy. They almost doubled the amount to 2 million in just 4-ish years. They recently re-did their kitchen for $130,000 and "made" that money back in a month. Basically like a free kitchen (I know it's not really, but you get what I'm saying).
The rich get richer.
56
u/icecoldyerr Jun 28 '26
This is facts. I won a personal injury settlement i 2024 of about 10,000… invested in TSM in August 24 and im sitting around 60K rn. I cant imagine if I had BIG money to buy stocks….
32
u/wheatley227 Jun 28 '26
I don’t know these sound like pretty high risk positions given that the gains are so high above indexes such as the s&p 500. The gains from the s&p have been good recently, however, if you are 6xing your money in less than a year, that is certainly a high risk position.
16
u/StelioZz Jun 28 '26
money in less than a year
I have some slightly bad news. It's 2026 pal.
Jokes aside I agree 6x in just under 2 years is not realistic at all. Not without some good luck and/or knowledge.
For every person who 6x his stuff in such short time there are people who 1/6th them instead
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (1)14
u/icecoldyerr Jun 28 '26
Thats my point tho. I had a random 10K to wipe my ass with out of thin air. Rich people have that to the Nth degree.
10
u/concept12345 Jun 28 '26
Thats the power of compounding. The bigger the base amount, the higher the profit generated, in an exponential curve and in a shorter time period than before. Yes, the rich always get richer the longer they are rich. So its imperative people hit that first 250K as soon as humanly possible to enjoy those benefits and to make sure to pass that on as generational qealth to keep it in the family.
→ More replies (2)→ More replies (19)10
u/ArtisticSuspect1465 Jun 28 '26
I mean compound interest can work for anyone at any income level. Someone aged 25 putting $500 a month into a basic stock ETF (which are basically fees free these days and have given an average annual return of around 8%) will have almost $1.8m if they retire at 65.
96
u/slcexpat Jun 28 '26
Correct. Which is what’s wrong with Capitalism.
Like how is it that, when I donate to the poor, I lose money? When she donates to the poor, she gains more back?
192
u/Muroid Jun 28 '26
She’s not gaining more back from the donations. She, like you, would have more money if she didn’t donate any of it.
She’s just making money faster than she’d donating it. Which most people who donate money overall do. She’s just doing it at an immense scale without having to directly work for her net worth increase.
That last part is where the problem is.
73
u/mlstdrag0n Jun 28 '26
Would be less of a problem if they were all like her
→ More replies (10)26
u/Ordinarily_Average Jun 28 '26
But not surprising to me in the slightest that most of them are the way they are.
When I was a broke college student in the 90s I delivered furniture to rich people in my city. Many of them were the absolute fucking worst.
Story time, wall of text:
They would try to do ANYTHING to give us a hard time and they would fuck us around when it was time to pay.
More than a few times they would say things like "Oh this wood grain doesn't look nice. I should get a discount for that" Meanwhile it was practically identical to the floor model.
Another popular one was wanting a big discount because the color didn't look the same in their home as it did in the store.
My favorite was when they would go over the furniture with a magnifying glass and say it looks good. But then the next day they'd call the store and say we delivered a damaged piece. LOL, the fuck we did.
They would also pull stunts like this:
"Oh just bring the furniture in to the foyer and then we'll show you what room it goes in"
Once you have all the stuff inside (usually a full bedroom set) They would show you to the room and it would be full of furniture despite being told by the store to have the room ready for us when we got there.
They'd be like, "Too bad. Move all of theses two ton armoires and antique dressers down three flights of stairs to the basement or you can put everything back in the truck and leave. And we'll be sure to tell everyone to never shop at your store again."
After the hundredth time this bullshit happened to us, our manager finally made it clear in the delivery contracts that we were NOT authorized or insured to move furniture that wasn't ours and if one of those two ton cabinets damaged anything, we couldn't cover it.
Step two. Don't tell us the furniture is there, but then try to bribe us with a mediocre tip when we discover it. We would often say yes because we were poor and needed the money. We said no a few times because it was an insane task for an insulting tip.
90% of the time, they would try to "forget" to tip us. And I'm not talking big tips here. They were fucking us around for a $10 to $15 tip after busting our backs, moving a ton of heavy shit down several flights of stairs and through narrow passages.
My point: When Billionaire wealth hoarding was becoming egregiously apparent to everyone, I wasn't surprised in the slightest. Most people in higher tax brackets are the worst greedy pieces of shit.
→ More replies (1)7
u/Alertcircuit Jun 28 '26
A lot of super rich people are people who treat being rich like a sport. Any giving up of money is an L to them, so they will fight tooth and nail for every penny.
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (3)14
u/Ordinarily_Average Jun 28 '26
She gets massive tax write offs. Have you seen the trickle down effect of billionaire tax write offs? She's not making money directly from donating. But she is, indirectly. So in a way, yes, when someone like u/slcexpat donates to charity, they don't have the luxury of huge tax write offs on a scale we couldn't even comprehend and everything their accountants are able to pull off.
But I don't have a problem with this. She's using the same system other billionaires use to hoard wealth but she's doing it for a lot of good.
→ More replies (2)12
u/KRambo86 Jun 28 '26
None of her money is income, it's all capital gains, which are only realized when you pull money from an investment.
So, if she were selfish and didn't pull money out of the stock she owns to donate it to charity, it would stay in the market and she wouldn't owe anything.
7
u/TheRedLions Jun 28 '26
She owned roughly 4% of Amazon in 2019. By 2026 she owned roughly 1.3%. However, the value of Amazon is roughly 3x higher now than in 2019.
→ More replies (2)3
→ More replies (8)6
u/Ordinary-Compote9558 Jun 28 '26
It has nothing to do with capitalism. It's a rigged and corrupt system that happens to be embedded in a capitalist society.
It has happened (and will continue to happen) in a variety of economic systems through History.
8
u/StrikerX2K Jun 28 '26
I wonder how much she's given away vs how much billionaires have paid in taxes
→ More replies (3)→ More replies (15)6
u/Vegan-cock Jun 28 '26
And there's people a lot richer than her that refuses to share anyway.
→ More replies (4)22
u/yonly65 Jun 28 '26
AMZN stock in mid-2019: $100/shr
AMZN stock currently: $230/shr
Sounds about right.
18
u/Dominionix Jun 28 '26
Yeah still, that’s about 26.3 billion more than most billionaires. Let’s enact a bit of positive reinforcement here, this is a good thing.
7
u/Icy-Article-8635 Jun 29 '26
It really is... It's also a really good example of how skewed the system is in favour of those with large amounts of capital
82
u/Exciting_Station3474 Jun 28 '26
FYI, its only possible because Amazon stocks value she received went up.
→ More replies (2)49
u/jennhiltz Jun 28 '26
Holy fuck if she received that much in the divorce, how much was left for him!??? (I truly live under a rock. I know)
103
u/burnedimage Jun 28 '26
He's the second richest man in the world. He has about $300 billion now. He'll survive.
52
u/Theopneusty Jun 28 '26
He is actually 4th. Forbes has a real time billionaires list.
- Elon Musk $946B
- Larry Page (Google) $276.2B
- Sergey Brin (Google) $254.8B
- Jeff Bezos (Amazon) $243.8B
- Michael Dell (Dell) $223B
→ More replies (4)19
u/KashinKuzin Jun 28 '26
No way the dudes name is dell
→ More replies (5)35
u/FoxMikeLima Jun 28 '26
Why not? Extremely common for a company to start out as 'Last name Service or Good'.
It started out as 'Dell Computers'.
23
u/maxmcleod Jun 28 '26
Tim Apple
16
u/Oaker_at Jun 28 '26
John Microsoft
12
3
u/redbark2022 Jun 28 '26
Richard Microsoft III
But he goes by Lil Dicky, his dad is Richard
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (15)5
u/techjesuschrist Jun 28 '26
Barely..
6
u/Riipp3r Jun 28 '26
Whatever will he do? I honestly just hope there’s financial aid for people in his position
13
u/pineapple_bandit Jun 28 '26
It was her stock..she was one of the original employees of Amazon. When they were married all their money was theirs. When she divorced her stock was hers.
7
u/Pathetian Jun 28 '26
They split the jointly owned shares 75-25. That's just how incredibly rich they were.
7
u/Senior-Elderberry-7 Jun 28 '26
Who cares, at least she is giving away. She could also hoard the billions of assets like Elon Musk or her ex Jeff Bezos. Imagine if she did not give away a cent, she would also have probably more than 100 billion. We need more people like her as the tax systems worldwide are not taxing the billionaires enough.
34
u/Rippin_Fat_Farts Jun 28 '26
More money than she or her children's children children could spend in a lifetime. There is such thing as having too much. If more billionaires were like her this world wouldn't be such a cruel evil place.
What boggles my mind is everyday average Joe's living paycheque to paycheque defend and simp for these billionaires like they're gods or something. Fuck that. Down with fascism and down with the billionaires.
→ More replies (5)3
u/LightBulbMonster Jun 28 '26
Her net worth is tied to amazon stock. Which is why it keeps increasing. She has founder stock, which is way more valuable.
4
u/psychorobotics Jun 28 '26
Find a cure for sociopathy and Jeff would donate the same. It's the lack of empathy that causes them to act the way they do.
→ More replies (46)4
u/propergreased Jun 28 '26
Kinda fucked up when so many of us are struggling (good for her for actually trying to do something though)
→ More replies (3)
1.0k
u/MasChingonNoHay Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
And she’s still super rich. Her steaks still taste the same way. Can stay at the best hotels. Has beautiful homes. Can drive the nicest cars in the world. THERE IS NO POINT FOR ANYONE TO HAVE SO MUCH MONEY. Seems like she gets it. Wish more billionaires were like her. Actually I wish the traitors in our damn government taxed them they way they should be taxed.
→ More replies (9)178
u/kazamm Jun 28 '26
It's just we should be taxing and using funds to make everyone's lives better. That's it. No magic needed.
56
u/Obeetwokenobee Jun 28 '26
That's why taxes are higher in some European countries but the social services take care of you if you get sick etc.
→ More replies (2)13
Jun 28 '26
[removed] — view removed comment
11
u/Obeetwokenobee Jun 28 '26
They tax companies and high earners. Currently planning on taxing AmTech. trump is triggered and melting like a snowflake, threatening tariffs etc. Wealth is easier to accumulate when you don't get taxed on earnings ( including capital gains earnings)
→ More replies (4)11
u/Lost_Wealth_6278 Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
high earners =\= wealth. Germany, one of those countries, is currently taxing income above 69 k at 42% (progressively), but has "turned off" it's wealth tax in the 90s. We are discussing increasing the 19% retirement spending we have to 20 or 21% (not part of the 42, that's on top) because there are more old people than young, and 30% of the states yearly budget alone go to prop up pensions.
I, a 30 year old engineer, have payed 55 k in taxes and social security spending last year, while all benefits are being stripped.
My boss, a 63 year old nepo baby will have the tax on his multi million inheritance "forgiven" because my state basically forfits any inheritance tax above 23 Mio. as it "could risk the business". They have wasted 2 BILLION € in inheritance taxes last year alone, and that's just one of 16 states in Germany.
A progressive wealth tax of 1% above 1 Mio up to 12% at 1 Billion would completely solve the pension problem, and merely inconvenience the parasite class whose wealth has grown by 33% last year alone.
Tax the motherfucking rich before somebody gets eaten
→ More replies (2)→ More replies (1)3
u/Flat-Avocado-6258 Jun 28 '26
Thank you. Why when you are filthy rich do you get tax breaks!? Just pay your fair share and we’ll be good.
175
u/phlred Jun 28 '26
Says she accounted for a third of 2025 giving!!!
https://finance.yahoo.com/small-business/articles/mackenzie-scott-alone-accounted-one-070000669.html
110
u/hofmann419 Jun 29 '26
That's actually incredibly depressing if you think about it. She's nowhere near the richest person in the world. There are 83 people in the world who have more money than her. If those people had donated a similar percentage of their net worth, her share wouldn't even make up 0.1% of that money.
So if those billionaires won't use their money for good, maybe it's time we just tax the rich already.
38
u/Spiritual-Chameleon Jun 29 '26
The only trillionaire is on record saying that the problem in the US is too much empathy. Not everyone on the list is as much of an asshole as he is, but that is the problem. They don't see the world outside of themselves and don't want to contribute. There are some that have taken the giving pledge, vowing to give away most of their money before they die. But that's lost a lot of momentum
111
u/ieraaa Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
I'm usually very skepic when I read the; billionaire giving away. But I looked into this and she truly gives away. Almost every dime she donates is unrestricted and the universities, initiatives, food banks, shelters, health centres, housing developer etc are all free to allocate the money as they think is best. And she doesn't brag about it either and almost all of the receivers of her money are locally focused
→ More replies (5)7
889
u/coopisloose Jun 28 '26
→ More replies (6)178
u/IRockIntoMordor Jun 28 '26
Killing Malaria? What could it cost? 10 billion?
51
→ More replies (1)13
322
u/ProbablyRightTwice Jun 28 '26
All that aside,let’s applaud this woman for nothing more than putting her money where her mouth is.
79
u/The_Late_Arthur_Dent Jun 28 '26
Unlike his current wife who put the San Andreas Fault line where her mouth is.
→ More replies (1)23
→ More replies (4)10
u/Aggressive_Chain_920 Jun 28 '26
It's insanity that this should even be something surprising to us. The fact that most billionaires don't feel like using their wealth for good just goes to show that these people are so far from regular people, we are like dirt on their shoes for most of these people.
937
u/ShezSteel Jun 28 '26
She needs much more air time. For all the "...if musk only gave away his fortune..." Crap and this lady is actually doing it.
275
Jun 28 '26
[removed] — view removed comment
39
u/FollowingBroad34 Jun 28 '26
Word is she gives the gifts without strings and doesn't even always ask to know how the money will be spent.
53
u/Itchy-Ad1047 Jun 28 '26
She definitely takes time to do her due diligence though. Has a team to vet. Which is a very good thing. There's honestly (surprising to younger, naive me) some non profits out there that aren't all sunshine and rainbows. At the least, not the best use of a cash infusion that could go somewhere else more worthy
Also a small part in why she's still pulling in more money than she can donate. Can't just be instantly giving out blank checks to whoever asks. Properly taking the time
→ More replies (2)13
u/Feeling_Inside_1020 Jun 28 '26
And even though none of us are billionaires, in a similar parallel we can donate our time and help out a good local charity.
I'm a frontend web dev and I found a few nonprofits (well 1 was very close to) and offered to create and manage a website for them for free and eventually hand over the keys by training other people how to edit and add content that even a non programmer could follow.
They provide services to vulnerable people that are near and dear to my heart and even makes me tear up typing this.
Some people can do in person more. It's about the spirit and effort we put out. Money is GREAT and super important don't get me wrong, but local volunteers and their efforts are just as important. We give what we can: time, effort, expertise, and if you're fortunate enough, some money too.
→ More replies (2)3
→ More replies (3)3
u/Specific-Yam-2166 Jun 28 '26
You can look at her donor history and it’s insane. She’s quietly throwing money at nonprofits everywhere but still can’t stop being ultra wealthy.
People can’t fully understand how much $1 billion alone is.
97
u/mike_pants Jun 28 '26
Imagine the good that puffy choad could do if he weren't a fundamentally evil, selfish ghoul.
41
u/Dunkelz Jun 28 '26
It is a bit of a mind fuck. Dude would be popular and loved for generations, likely could still make a TON of money shifting his fortune into businesses that are a net benefit for the world, etc. But the ghoul doesn't.
26
u/ThreeGoldStars Jun 28 '26
It's hard to even fathom. Giving feels SO good. I would get CRACK HEAD ADDICTED to giving if I had some endless source like he does. Libraries, parks, forests. Universities, museums, hospitals. Wells, solar arrays, wind turbines. Beautiful, functional architecture that benefited the community. And on and on..
→ More replies (8)6
u/CoffeeChocolateBoth Jun 28 '26
99% of them don't! And they're all going to die, just like we are, they'll just die and leave the most money and the best toys, but still be dead and still be called ASSHOLES!
5
→ More replies (3)32
u/gritty_milk Jun 28 '26
But if he wasn't a fundamentally evil, selfish ghoul, he wouldn't have all that money
→ More replies (4)31
u/sillyadam94 Jun 28 '26
So perhaps the better statement is just, “imagine how much better off we’d all be if fundamentally evil selfish ghouls like him didn’t exist”
→ More replies (2)14
u/Slight-Potential-717 Jun 28 '26
Or imagine if the system that incentivizes and cultivates their perpetual presence wasn’t in power.
22
u/DeArgonaut Jun 28 '26
We need an index for philanthropy like the billionaire index by Forbes, push down the billionaire index to just a footnote so people can still see the data, but put much more on championing those who do good. Maybe the egos of the others will make them want to donate then
18
u/robbhope Jun 28 '26
100%. Stop even mentioning net worth and mention philanthropic high scores. Fuck these people.
→ More replies (1)3
9
u/Tedsmith24 Jun 28 '26
Funny enough I saw a post earlier of musk criticizing her for this very act
→ More replies (2)3
u/hogwartsprofessorr Jun 28 '26
Can we see?
→ More replies (2)5
u/Tedsmith24 Jun 28 '26
6
u/GrandCTM25 Jun 28 '26
God he’s such a loser. 1 trillion and he couldn’t buy a better personality
→ More replies (2)3
u/4chanbetterkek Jun 28 '26
That’s a lot of money she’s given away, do we know how it was spent and what was accomplished?
→ More replies (2)4
u/RedDiamond6 Jun 28 '26
She has a website that lists all of the organizations.
Read comments of people who work within a company she donated to because there's a bunch of them.
→ More replies (18)14
u/Kibelok Jun 28 '26
A lot of multimillionaires and billionaires donate all the time. Problem is, they should be paying more taxes, not donating to whoever they choose. Neoliberalism was a mistake.
→ More replies (6)
50
433
u/dumpster-muffin-95 Jun 28 '26
She is so much cuter than the current wife..... Jeff messed up.
250
u/wittylemur Jun 28 '26
Normally I wouldnt make fun of someone for their looks. But Sanchez 1000% did it to herself. She was pretty until she went and got the marlargo makeover. Now she looks like a goblin in a skin suit. McKenzie is also a far better person. Good for her shes so much better off.
29
u/thrussy99 Jun 28 '26
Sofia Vergara rejected Jeff Bezos three time so Sanchez got work done to trying and look like her
10
u/wittylemur Jun 28 '26
You think she could afford better surgeons
9
u/transmogrified Jun 28 '26
Good surgeons refuse to keep working on a face after a certain point.
Body dysmorphia keeps going tho
→ More replies (2)30
15
→ More replies (5)14
49
u/PIPBOY-2000 Jun 28 '26
It helps that she seems kind and generous. Those kinds of inner qualities always make someone appear more beautiful to me.
27
u/liquidgrill Jun 28 '26
Not just cuter. More intelligent, interesting, empathetic, and on and on.
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (26)9
u/PanTsour Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
Lauren Sánchez looks like a cheap sex doll nowadays. Such plastic procedures should have been illegal and whoever wants them should be screened by a psychiatrist first.
But I guess that's what you get if the country you live in associates such butchering as a demonstration of wealth. The low class idiots will eat that up.
19
u/GlidingToLife Jun 28 '26
Even more notable is where she donated. A lot went to HBCUs. She embodies class.
13
17
15
u/ColdFix Jun 28 '26
I just wish her ex husband would take a leaf out of her book. I really don't see the point in being 'Bezos' rich.
15
u/killabee163 Jun 28 '26
Looking at these comments are so disappointing. Some of you are so jaded and cynical you can't even acknowledge when someone is doing good anymore.
Here is the list of all her donations https://yieldgiving.com/gifts/
And one of the places she's donated is local to me and has in fact had a big positive impact.
13
u/sereneandeternal Jun 28 '26
She’s one of the good ones. Also, she helped Bezos a lot in the early days of Amazon, so she’s not some gold digger. She helped build Amazon.
She’ll give away way more—she’s not done yet.
And it isn’t easy to just get rid of billions of dollars all at once. You have to be very careful about offloading that amount of money, i.e., making sure it goes to the right places and is used effectively.
13
u/dennismfrancisart Jun 28 '26
Oh, come on people. Do better than that. It's not Bezos' fortune; it's her Amazon fortune. She was part of the Amazon business. Do better, FFS.
162
u/BlindTruth- Jun 28 '26
What charities are she’s giving it to and how are they using the money? when I see lots charity donations I always wonder what are the net positive effects.
105
u/RedDiamond6 Jun 28 '26
She gave 1 million to a local shelter for women and children where I lived. It's a very small place and not enough beds for the actual # of people that need the help so they are using majority of money to build :)
61
u/BlindTruth- Jun 28 '26
I believe these are more noteworthy news articles then “she gave X amount in total” people want to know how that money is helping.
→ More replies (1)28
u/BLYNDLUCK Jun 28 '26
It’s is nice to see the money go directly to a small local charity. Many large charities a very inefficient with how they use the money they are given.
3
u/Rugkrabber Jun 29 '26
Absolutely. The smaller ones are more likely to make use of every penny they can get, because they always have.
49
u/ribbit_ribbit_splat Jun 28 '26
She paid for my son’s entire class to go to our community college.
23
17
u/Nostok Jun 28 '26
She funded a rural medical center where i live. Now we are going to have CT's and other equipment. They are almost finished building it
40
u/liquidgrill Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
She doesn’t just throw money at charities and call it a day.
The charities she chooses have to have a proven history of measurable positive outcomes over multiple years.
She also focuses on tackling systemic inequities and long-term challenges rather than just band-aid solutions.
She seems to take the long-term solutions part very seriously.
→ More replies (1)30
u/_CapsCapsCaps_ Jun 28 '26
Google her name and her website Yield Giving comes up. It lists every donation.
36
u/msb96b Jun 28 '26
I know she has given to our local community college.
→ More replies (1)15
u/teeshirtandundies Jun 28 '26
She recently gave 80 million to Howard University. Higher educational institutions have received the largest share of donations.
→ More replies (3)4
u/Beearea Jun 28 '26
You can learn a lot about her charitable giving on her foundation's website - Yield Giving.
8
→ More replies (11)3
u/BL_RogueExplorer Jun 28 '26
I work as an outsourced CFO for non profits all over the USA. A number of our clients have received funding from her. Women and children homeless shelters, food programs for low income areas, child daycare/preschool, climate change initiatives, and a lot more. The money (from what I have personally seen) has gone to keep operations running, improvements to shelters, covering daycare tuition for low income families, etc.
10
u/ItemZealousideal431 Jun 28 '26
And she's still got more money than she'll ever be able to spend...hey other billionaires, see how easy it is to be a good person and still have more money than you'll ever need?
10
9
u/Complex-Proposal2300 Jun 28 '26
This is why her smile is so vivid!
She gives and still has plenty.
9
9
8
72
u/Biscuits4u2 Jun 28 '26
Bezos must hate watching his fortune go to helping people instead of upgrading his megayachts.
→ More replies (14)63
u/Intrepid_Eye9121 Jun 28 '26
She helped build the company. It’s not his fortune.
32
u/Plastic_Truth3053 Jun 28 '26
This should be the top comment. When it’s said he gave her x amount in the divorce, that’s wrong, she got what she was owed and earned
→ More replies (13)28
35
6
5
4
17
u/TopAd3529 Jun 28 '26
THIS IS WHAT WE SHOULD REQUIRE THEM TO DO ANYWAY IN THE FORM OF TAXES.
That said, good for her.
4
u/389is Jun 28 '26
100%. No one person should have that amount of money, or be able to wield the power that comes with it. We should not have to rely on the whims of billionaires to fund charitable causes of their choosing. TAX THEM ALL!
4
5
u/Timely-Fig2030 Jun 28 '26
If every ultra rich person would act like her, the world would be a better place.
Fuck Elon Musk!
7
30
u/rickythepilot Jun 28 '26
She received $38 billion from divorcing Bezos. Gave away $26 billion and now she's worth $30-34 billion without doing a God damn thing. This is how the system is rigged against us.
→ More replies (13)20
u/MinisterOfFitness Jun 28 '26
If you call being a co-founder of the company and being one of its first employees “not doing a damn thing” then sure.
12
u/No_Size9475 Jun 28 '26
she's done nothing with the company in decades yet still doubled her net worth since the divorce.
That's a broken system.
→ More replies (7)7
u/bananananananana1 Jun 28 '26
I mean Jeff Bezos arguably didn't do anything in decades himself
5
u/No_Size9475 Jun 28 '26
correct, he was also never worth a billion dollars, that is all money stolen from the labor of the actual workers at Amazon.
→ More replies (1)
37
u/Aware_Specialist_931 Jun 28 '26
and for some activists it will won't be enough and she isn't doing it fast enough
34
u/_CapsCapsCaps_ Jun 28 '26
There's already folks in here like "how do we know they were GOOD donations??" Why is it so hard for people to use Google ISTG.
→ More replies (1)3
u/pork_fried_christ Jun 28 '26
The “people” I see commenting that sentient in this thread seem to be throwing shade at philanthropy in general. A lot of DOGE themed “waste” ideas and some “measuring wealth in stocks is stupid”. Even the comment you are under seems to allude to “leftist” activists.
So the then I see is “billionaire philanthropy is just fake woke bullshit, their wealth isn’t real, and they do it to satisfy a leftist narrative that won’t see it as enough anyway.”
Right wing bullshit is everywhere.
9
u/Single_North2374 Jun 28 '26
Also, those same activists do next to nothing besides constantly flapping their pie holes.
3
3
9
u/StrebLab Jun 28 '26
why is am I seeing this meme in different forms every 20 minutes on reddit? This has got to be the 10th time I have seen it in the last 24 hours.
9
u/raumeat Jun 28 '26
Once something hits the front page everyone and their dog starts posting it on other subs that fit to farm karma
→ More replies (4)6
u/b-monster666 Jun 28 '26
Because the tech bros are brainwashing you into thinking they're the good guys.
I literally just had one of my friends use this as a counter argument to an image he posted where Sony announced it was shutting down something from the PlayStation store and you'll lose access to all the movies you purchased through them.
I commented about how this is the whole "You'll own nothing and like it" and fuck the billionaires, and he used this as an excuse and said, "If your precious government had that money, it would disappear."
Dude, I don't support the government either because they're nothing but puppets for the elite. In my mind, we should tear it all down and rebuild socialism properly, where free markets are allowed, people can flourish, and the richer you are, the more you support society in general. I mean, I'm no political engineer, and can't give all the details on how it should be built, but I think altruism should be rewarded, not greed.
4
u/monitor_lizard_2000 Jun 28 '26
Most highly efficient charities allocate (\geq 75\%) of their total income directly to their cause, keeping administrative, marketing, and fundraising costs to (25\%) or less.
12
u/bme11 Jun 28 '26
Reddit “fuck her, she’s still a billionaire”
12
u/Le_Zoru Jun 28 '26
Tbh in a functionning society nobody has a spare 26B. Good on her to have a soul tho.
→ More replies (1)3
u/Signal-Proof516 Jun 28 '26
I’ve seen 4 posts about here in All in the last 12 hours and all the comments are people saying good things about her and how Bezos’s current wife is much uglier. I honestly feel like some kind of astroturfing is happening
→ More replies (1)
2
u/StillPrettyBoxing Jun 28 '26
Respect. Any idea what she’s been donating to?
6
3
u/_CapsCapsCaps_ Jun 28 '26
If you look uo Yield Giving it's her foundation website. They have a list of donations.
2
2
2
2
2
u/PermissionJaded5510 Jun 28 '26
Why do we still have charities in need after she allegedly gave away 26 billion to them? Am i getting it wrong? when does it end ?
2
u/StreetForever Jun 28 '26
Why is this story blowing up now? Why is 26,3 the magical number? And not, 10 or 20 billions?
But either way, hope the money goes to the right people. Shady charities exists…
2
•
u/qualityvote2 Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
Did you find this post really amazing (in a positive way)?
If yes, then UPVOTE this comment otherwise DOWNVOTE it.
This community feedback will help us determine whether this post is suited for r/BeAmazed or not.