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Elon Musk has once again set his sights on MacKenzie Scott's charity work.
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The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX said the billionaire's gifts to liberal nonprofits were “concerning.”
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Jeff Bezos' ex-wife Scott has donated more than $19 billion to charities since 2019.
Elon Musk has once again taken aim at MacKenzie Scott over the billionaire's charitable donations.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO shared an X-post written by John LeFevre on Monday criticizing Scott. The author and ex-banker's post sounded the alarm about Scott's donations to nonprofits focused on issues of racial equality, social justice, immigration protection and LGBTQ+ rights.
Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has donated more than $19 billion to more than 2,450 nonprofits through her Yield Giving organization since 2019. Her net worth remains above $30 billion thanks to the rising value of her Amazon shares.
“So she's just getting started,” LeFevre wrote.
Musk reposted the criticism, along with a single word: “Concerned.”
The world's richest man, who championed Donald Trump and donated more than $270 million to help the former president win re-election, has previously criticized Scott's support for liberal causes.
“'Super-rich ex-wives who hate their ex-husbands' should be listed under 'Reasons Why Western Civilization Died,'” Musk said in a now-deleted X post in March.
About two weeks later, Scott announced that she was more than doubling the size of her latest set of donations to $640 million, spanning 361 organizations.
In May 2022, Musk said the Democratic Party was sidelining his companies because Scott had donated to political action committees “posing as charities.” He also said she hated Bezos and this led to many other people being “caught in the crossfire.”
But Hans Peter Schmitz, the Bob and Carol Mattocks Distinguished Professor of Nonprofit Leadership at North Carolina State University, told BI in September that Scott was a powerful example for other philanthropists to follow.
Schmitz said Scott gave strategically, invested more directly and relied on consultants to ensure she was giving to the best nonprofits in an area. However, he noted that she let recipients decide how to spend their gifts and had not tied up her fortune in a grant system or foundation.
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