{"id":1608,"date":"2022-03-24T12:19:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T12:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/mackenzie-scott-tallies-her-donations-so-far-12-billion-to-1257-groups-the-new-york-times\/"},"modified":"2022-03-24T12:19:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T12:19:32","slug":"mackenzie-scott-tallies-her-donations-so-far-12-billion-to-1257-groups-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/24\/mackenzie-scott-tallies-her-donations-so-far-12-billion-to-1257-groups-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"MacKenzie Scott Tallies Her Donations So Far: $12 Billion to 1,257 Groups – The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The philanthropist announced new donations to Ukraine aid and Planned Parenthood, and said she would soon debut a database of all her giving.
By <\/span>Nicholas Kulish<\/a><\/span> and Maria Cramer<\/a><\/span>
Since first promising in 2019 to give away her entire fortune, the billionaire MacKenzie Scott has handed out over $12 billion to nonprofits, per a tally of her publicly announced gifts since 2020. That enormous sum has vaulted her to the top ranks of philanthropists worldwide.
In her latest essay<\/a> on the website Medium on Wednesday, Ms. Scott described an additional $3.9 billion in gifts to 465 nonprofits in just the last nine months, including funds dedicated to areas she had given to in the past, such as climate and education, as well as newly pressing needs, like Ukraine relief efforts.
\u201cOur team\u2019s focus over these last nine months has included some new areas, but as always our aim has been to support the needs of underrepresented people from groups of all kinds,\u201d Ms. Scott wrote.
On Wednesday, Habitat for Humanity International announced that Ms. Scott had donated $436 million<\/a> to the group and 84 affiliates. She also gave $275 million to Planned Parenthood\u2019s national office and 21 affiliates around the country, which the group called the largest gift from a single donor in its history.
\u201cAt such a critical time for reproductive health and rights, this investment and expression of confidence in Planned Parenthood will help us to be as strong as we can be to meet the moment,\u201d said Melaney Linton, president of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast and chairwoman of the affiliate council, in a statement<\/a> on Wednesday.
All told, 1,257 organizations have received donations from Ms. Scott since 2020. Even the amounts she has given to smaller groups are often large by their standards, in many cases equal to an organization\u2019s entire annual budget.
That was the case when Ms. Scott donated $15 million last week to Madre<\/a>, an aid and human rights organization in New York that supports women\u2019s groups around the world, according to the organization. \u201cThis is the single biggest grant we\u2019ve ever received from a donor by orders of magnitude,\u201d said Yifat Susskind, executive director of Madre.
Ms. Susskind celebrated what the gift can do for the people the organization serves \u2014 but also wanted to make sure smaller donors know they are valued, too. \u201cWe\u2019re doing what we can to message to folks that it\u2019s everybody\u2019s faith in our work that brought us to the point where we can get on the radar of someone like MacKenzie Scott,\u201d she said.
The announcement on Wednesday was a course reversal for Ms. Scott, who has grappled with the conflicting demands of her desire for privacy and her goal of publicizing the work done by the groups she is helping. Unlike foundations, which must file detailed, publicly available tax returns, Ms. Scott has given through the charitable vehicles known as donor-advised funds<\/a>, which do not require her to file separate disclosures.
Even after her many gifts, Forbes magazine<\/a> still estimates Ms. Scott\u2019s net worth at $49.4 billion.
In December she released a giving letter called \u201cNo Dollar Signs This Time<\/a>,\u201d in which she declined to name the organizations she had given to or the total amount of money she had handed out.
A new diplomatic push. <\/strong>President Biden is planning to announce new sanctions<\/a>\u00a0against Russia\u00a0during his trip to Brussels, where he will meet with NATO allies<\/a>\u00a0and the European Union.<\/span>
Russia\u2019s shrinking force. <\/strong>The Pentagon said that Russia\u2019s \u201ccombat power\u201d in Ukraine has dipped below 90 percent of its original force<\/a>. Western intelligence reports and military analyses indicate that Russian forces remain stalled<\/a>\u00a0across much of the Ukrainian battlefield.<\/span>
NATO deployment. <\/strong>NATO\u2019s chief, Jens Stoltenberg, said that the alliance would double the number of battlegroups in its eastern flank<\/a>\u00a0by deploying four new battlegroups in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia, a significant bolstering of NATO\u2019s presence in the region.<\/span>
Two days later, facing criticism that she had grown less rather than more transparent, she wrote an addendum in which she said she was working on a website that would include a \u201csearchable database of gifts.\u201d
Ms. Scott seemed to pre-empt any potential criticism that the website had not gone up yet, writing that it \u201cwill go live only after it reflects the preferences of every one of these nonprofit teams about how details of their gifts are shared.\u201d
While Ms. Scott has written extensively about her goal of promoting equity and in particular her efforts to prioritize groups led by women, people of color and L.G.B.T.Q. people, she hasn\u2019t shied away from more general direct aid in times of need, as when she gave to food banks and Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. chapters during the first, acute phase of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.
This time around she listed seven groups working directly on Ukraine, after the Russian invasion there, including the Norwegian Refugee Council<\/a>, HIAS<\/a> and CARE<\/a>.
\u201cHelping any of us,\u201d she concluded, \u201ccan help us all.\u201d
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