MacKenzie Scott Gives Away $7 Billion In One Year ... A Quarter Of What She's Got
MacKenzie Scott gave $7.17 billion to about 225 organizations in 2025. $26.3 billion since 2019.
By the Rich vs Reality desk December 2025 5 sources

The math
25%
of the fortune, given in one year.
In December 2025, MacKenzie Scott disclosed $7.17 billion in gifts made that year to about 225 organizations, including historically Black colleges and groups working on poverty, social justice and climate. It was her largest year of giving yet.
Since 2019 she has given away $26.3 billion, putting her behind only Warren Buffett and Bill Gates in lifetime giving. Forbes now puts her fortune at $28.6 billion.
The same share, for a typical family: a check for about $48,000.
The 2025 gifts alone equal about a quarter of that. For a typical American family, giving the same share of its net worth would mean writing a check for about $48,000.
MacKenzie Scott
$7.17 billion
For everyone else, that's
25.1%
of the fortune. For a typical American family, the same share is $48,360.
Drag the seam between the two worlds.
Measured against a typical American household: $87,460 a year, $192,900 net worth.
The receipts
- CNBC, Dec 2025
- CNN, Dec 2025
- Net worth: Forbes, The World's Billionaires 2026
- U.S. Census Bureau, Income in the United States: 2025 (Sept 2026)
- Federal Reserve, Survey of Consumer Finances 2022
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