MacKenzie Scott Net Worth in 2026: How Much Is Left After Giving Away Over $26 Billion in 5 Years

Scott and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos divorced in 2019 after 25 years of marriage. As part of the settlement, she received roughly a 4% stake in Amazon — about 19.7 million shares at the time, worth an estimated $36 billion. Bezos retained voting control over the shares, but the economic value was hers outright.

Despite giving away more than $26 billion since the divorce, Scott's fortune has kept growing. Amazon's stock has climbed so much that even after her donations and periodic share sales, she is wealthier today than she was the day the marriage ended — the giving has barely dented the underlying stake.

A large share of Scott's giving has gone to higher education, especially Historically Black Colleges and Universities — her HBCU giving alone has topped $1 billion, spread across 24 schools plus endowment support for all 37 UNCF-member institutions.

Named gifts include $80 million to Howard University, $63 million each to Morgan State University and Prairie View A&M University, $42 million to Elizabeth City State University, $38 million each to Alabama State University and Spelman College, and a $70 million gift to the United Negro College Fund.

Scott's philanthropy is built around large, unrestricted gifts — grants with no application process, minimal reporting requirements, and no conditions on how recipients use the money. She typically explains her reasoning in her own posts rather than through a foundation press office.

A multi-year study by the Center for Effective Philanthropy found that the large, unrestricted nature of Scott's gifts has strengthened the financial position of the nonprofits that received them, according to CBS News' coverage of the research.

She holds an estimated 90,000,000 shares of AMZN worth $22.49B at the current price — about 53% of her total net worth.

The remaining $20.00B is a static estimate for privately-held assets, cash, and other holdings that don't have a live public price — this portion doesn't move minute-to-minute like the AMZN stake does.

MacKenzie Scott is a novelist and philanthropist who received a large Amazon stake in her 2019 divorce from Jeff Bezos. She has since given away tens of billions of dollars, largely as unrestricted gifts to nonprofits.