1. Mackenzie Scott – $43.6 billion
Following the divorce from the former world’s richest man in 2019, Bloomberg reports that the ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, has donated more than US$12.55 billion to more than 1,253 organizations in the last two years. More money has been contributed by the philanthropist than by Jeff Bezos, who is currently the richest person on earth.
Mackenzie Scott got a quarter of Amazon’s shares after the divorce, but she wanted to donate a considerable amount of them. Her most recent gift to Big Brothers Big Sisters, an American organization that provides mentoring for young people, was a hefty US$122 million.
