{"id":424853,"date":"2026-08-05T22:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T22:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/424853\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T22:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T22:02:09","slug":"fresno-unified-valley-colleges-receive-millions-from-philanthropist-mackenzie-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/424853\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Unified, Valley colleges receive millions from philanthropist Mackenzie Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story was originally published by <a href=\"https:\/\/edsource.org\/2026\/mackenzie-scott-donates-california-education\/763259\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">EdSource<\/a>. Sign up for their <a href=\"https:\/\/edsource.org\/subscribe\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">daily newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Philanthropist and early Amazon contributor MacKenzie Scott has donated more than $461 million to California public education institutions since 2021. <\/p>\n<p>The gifts are part of the $26 billion Scott has distributed since 2019 through unrestricted grants, allowing recipients to decide how to use the funds. <\/p>\n<p>According to her organization\u2019s website, Scott\u2019s team conducts \u201cquiet research to identify candidate organizations working to advance the opportunities of people in underserved communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The approximate total amount MacKenzie Scott has given to California public schools, community colleges and school districts from 2021 to 2025.<\/p>\n<p>California public education institutions that received MacKenzie Scott grants from 2021 to 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Cal State Northridge and UC Merced have each received two grants from Scott, totaling $151 million apiece. Cal State East Bay, the only Bay Area public entity to receive a grant from Scott, was awarded $50 million last year.<\/p>\n<p>The amount Scott donated to Lemoore College, a community college south of Fresno, in 2021 has not been disclosed. <\/p>\n<p>According to Scott\u2019s website, some recipients choose not to publicly disclose the amount of the gift.<\/p>\n<p>The total California State University, Northridge received from MacKenzie Scott through two gifts \u2014 $40 million in 2021 and $63 million in 2025, making it the largest recipient among California public institutions since 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The share of MacKenzie Scott\u2019s $416 million in California public education gifts that went to the state\u2019s higher education system from 2021 to 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The number of California school districts that received MacKenzie Scott grants. Fresno Unified School District received the most at $20 million in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Data source: Given by philanthropist MacKenzie Scott through her <a href=\"https:\/\/yieldgiving.com\/gifts\/?locations=us_west_ca&amp;focus=15,16,17,18,19\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yield Giving organization<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This story was originally published by EdSource. Sign up for their daily newsletter. Philanthropist and early Amazon contributor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[8487,42163,1552,15,112,114,113,14569,55991,169392,40773,7346],"class_list":["post-424853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-amazon","tag-colleges","tag-donation","tag-education","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-unified","tag-lemoore","tag-mackenzie-scott","tag-philanthropist","tag-uc-merced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}