MacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos's ex-wife, donated $275 million to PPFA and affiliates.
, Scott donated nearly $3.9 billion over the past nine months to 465 organizations. She most recently donated $275 million to Planned Parenthood and 21 of its affiliates — the largest gift from a single donor in Planned Parenthood history.
"We are incredibly grateful for Ms. Scott's extraordinary philanthropic investment," Planned Parenthood Chief Executive Alexis McGill Johnson wrote in a statement on ."As we face the most serious attacks on access to abortion that we've seen in a generation, PPFA is proud to play a vital role in ensuring access to essential health care."post, Scott explained her process for choosing organizations to donate to."Our team's 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," she wrote.
Included in the other $3.9 billion Scott has donated over the last nine months is a $436 million gift to Habitat for Humanity affiliateson Tuesday, per Bloomberg. Scott has also donated to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, the Climate Justice Resilience Fund, Achieving the Dream, the National Equity Project, and more.
According to Scott, her team is working on a website that will include more information about her donations and a searchable database of her grants. It"will go live only after it reflects the preferences of every one of these non-profit teams about how details of their gifts are shared," she wrote on Medium.
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