24 Facts About MacKenzie Scott

MacKenzie Scott is an American novelist and philanthropist.

MacKenzie Scott was named one of the world's most powerful women by Forbes in 2021, and one of Time's 100 Most Influential People of 2020.

In 2006, MacKenzie Scott won an American Book Award for her 2005 debut novel, The Testing of Luther Albright.

MacKenzie Scott has been executive director of Bystander Revolution, an anti-bullying organization, since she founded it in 2014.

MacKenzie Scott Tuttle was born on April 7,1970, in San Francisco, California, to Holiday Robin, a homemaker, and Jason Baker Tuttle, a financial planner.

MacKenzie Scott was named after her maternal grandfather, G Scott Cuming, who worked as an executive and general counsel at El Paso Natural Gas.

MacKenzie Scott remembers seriously writing at the age of six, when she wrote The Book Worm, a 142-page book, which was destroyed in a flood.

MacKenzie Scott was one of Amazon's first employees and was heavily involved in Amazon's early days, working on the company's name, business plan, accounts, and shipping early orders.

In 2005, MacKenzie Scott wrote her debut novel, The Testing of Luther Albright, for which she won an American Book Award in 2006.

MacKenzie Scott said that it took her ten years to write as she was helping Bezos build Amazon, giving birth to three children, and raising them.

MacKenzie Scott was married to Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, from 1993 to 2019.

MacKenzie Scott became the third-wealthiest woman in the world and one of the wealthiest people overall in April 2019.

In 2021, MacKenzie Scott married Seattle high school science teacher Dan Jewett.

MacKenzie Scott filed for divorce from Jewett in September 2022.

In May 2019, MacKenzie Scott signed the Giving Pledge, a charitable-giving campaign in which she undertook to give away most of her wealth to charity over her lifetime or in her will; despite its name, the pledge is not legally binding.

In December 2020, less than six months later, MacKenzie Scott stated that she had donated a further $4.15 billion in the previous four months to 384 organizations, with a focus on providing support to people affected by the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and addressing long-term systemic inequities.

MacKenzie Scott's team's focus was on "identifying organizations with strong leadership teams and results, with special attention to those operating in communities facing high projected food insecurity, high measures of racial inequity, high local poverty rates, and low access to philanthropic capital".

Forbes reported that MacKenzie Scott donated $8.5 billion across 780 organizations in one year.

In February 2022, nine organizations announced gifts from MacKenzie Scott totaling $264.5 million.

MacKenzie Scott donated to organizations in Kenya, India, Brazil, Micronesia and Latin America.

In October 2022, MacKenzie Scott donated $84.5 million to Girl Scouts of the USA and its 29 local councils, making it the largest donation from an individual in the organization's history.

In March 2023, MacKenzie Scott announced an "open call" for community-focused nonprofits that MacKenzie Scott can fund.

MacKenzie Scott has pushed the focus away from the giver, and onto the nonprofits, she is trying to help.

MacKenzie Scott subsequently announced that her team would build a website to share details of her philanthropy.