For some time, MacKenzie Scott has been hard at work turning her multibillion-dollar Amazon fortune into one of the most aggressive philanthropic runs in modern history. Mainly through her Yield Giving outlet, she distributed more than $19 billion to over 2,000 organizations, largely in the form of unrestricted grants that let recipients decide how to use the money. Higher education — specifically, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) — sits at the center of that strategy. Scott gave about $560 million to 23 HBCUs in 2020, then returned in 2025 with another wave: More than $700 million to over a dozen HBCUs in just
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