FILE - Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party, March 4, 2018, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
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The author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott revealed $7.1 billion in donations to nonprofits in 2025 Tuesday, marking a significant increase in her annual giving from recent years. Scott acknowledged donating $2.6 billion in 2024 and $2.1 billion in 2023. The gifts this year bring her total giving since 2019 to $26.3 billion. Scott acknowledged the donations in an essay on her website. Scott’s donations have captured the attention of nonprofits and other charitable funders because they come with no strings attached and are often very large compared to the annual budgets of the recipient organizations
Volunteers distribute relief goods to survivors at a village affected by flash flood in Pidie Jaya, Aceh province, Indonesia, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Reza Saifullah)
FILE - Utah Food Bank volunteers gather groceries for the needy at a mobile food pantry distribution site Dec. 21, 2022, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
Volunteers distribute donated supplies following the fire that started Wednesday at Wang Fuk Court, a residential estate in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong's New Territories, Friday, Nov. 28 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
FILE - Sister Norma Pimentel, the director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, plays with migrant children on the floor of the Humanitarian Respite Center in McAllen, Texas, Dec. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto, file)
NASHVILLE (AP) — Richard Casper shakes his head as he touches one of the boarded-up windows in the once-abandoned church he plans to transform…
Army veteran Clay Jensen, left, talks about events in his military career as songwriter Brian White, right, puts them into lyrics as they work in a dressing room in the Grand Ole Opry House as part of the CreatiVets program on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
Army veteran Charles Elliott, bottom center, works on a piece of stained glass in the CreatiVets headquarters on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
Gary Sinise, left, and CreatiVets executive director Richard Casper, right, pose for a photo in the Gary Sinise Foundation offices on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2025, in Franklin, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)