MacKenzie Scott’s Recent HBCU Gifts Top $700M. See Who Got Funding.

MacKenzie Scott Expands Giving Spree to Tribal Colleges

The philanthropist MacKenzie Scott is funneling tens of millions of dollars into tribal higher education, months after the Trump administration sought to cut one of the system’s most essential funding sources. The donations could help shield some tribal schools — which measure their reserve funds and endowments at best in the low millions, not billions — and their students from budget bickering in Washington. Ms. Scott has not made public commen…

UMC-affiliated HBCU Receives $19 Million Donation

Philander Smith University, a historically Black United Methodist college in Little Rock, Ark., announced Nov. 14 that it has received a $19 million donation, its largest single contribution ever, from billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott.

MacKenzie Scott’s recent HBCU gifts top $700M. See who got funding.

We’re rounding up which institutions received donations since mid-October and how much the philanthropist has given them over the past few years.

BLK ALERTS - After $38 million donation to Louisiana’s Xavier University, MacKenzie Scott has given HBCUs over $740 million (and counting) in 2025

BEVERLY HILLS, CA – MARCH 04: Jeff Bezos (L) and MacKenzie Bezos attend the 2018 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 4, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images) The philanthropist has donated $19 billion since her 2019 divorce from Amazon co-founder Jeff Bezos. Mackenzie Scott’s philanthropy appears to have no end. Weeks after the billionaire …

Jeff Bezos's ex MacKenzie Scott has just given away $700 million

MacKenzie Scott is continuing her extraordinary philanthropic streak, having distributed another $700 million to historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), and education-focused nonprofits supporting students of color - in just the past few months. The 55-year-old author and philanthropist (who snagged a cool $38 billion from her divorce from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos) has now become one of the most significant private supporters of H…