MacKenzie Scott is not simply giving a fortune. He's questioning the way the great stepfathers are distributed.
After the divorce of 2019, in which he received a significant share of Amazon, Scott began to allocate a huge part of his wealth to philanthropy.
And he did it at a speed out of the ordinary.
At the end of 2025, his donations had reached approximately $26.3 billion.
Only in 2025 would have distributed approximately 7.1 billion.
But to understand why his approach has attracted so much attention is not enough to look at the figures.
In the Yield Giving database there are over 2,700 donations.
Many have been intended for organizations with few restrictions on the use of money.
It's a fundamental thing.
In the traditional philanthropy, in fact, financing may be linked to certain programmes, projects or objectives established by the financier.
Scott's approach, however, in many cases leaves more freedom to organizations receiving money, allowing them to decide where those resources are really needed.
It means being able to hire staff, strengthen existing services, deal with operational expenses or invest in need that from the outside could be difficult to predict.
In other words, trust is also granted with money.
Perhaps this is the most interesting aspect of his history.
Scott still owns a huge wealth, but since 2019 he transferred more than $26 billion to thousands of organizations.
A fortune born also from the success of one of the most important companies of the digital age is thus being redistributed, piece after piece, to realities that operate in society.
And the number that tells the story better could not be 26 billion.
It could be 2,700.
Because behind that figure there are thousands of organizations to which someone, in addition to delivering a check, said substantially: you are the ones to know better the work that must be done.