The Trevor Project, known for its hotline for LGBTQ+ youth, received $45 million from billionaire and author MacKenzie Scott at the end of 2025, the organization said Monday.
The gift is the largest in the organization’s history but also a major boon following years of management turmoil, layoffs and the loss of significant federal funding over the summer.
“I literally could not believe it and it took some time. I actually gasped,” said Jaymes Black, CEO of The Trevor Project, when they were notified of Scott’s gift.
Just beware that rich people use publicity of their charitable work as good-washing (is that a term?) for their other activities. Bill Gates is a good example of that behaviour.
Not that I think that Mackenzie Scott is doing this, since she seems to have never really been in a position of power to show her evil side (if she has one).
Oh for sure. Idk if good washing is a term, but it should be. The only reasons I kinda buy it for her are that
All in all, her motives don’t seem hugely self serving.
I think you do the transfer through a law firm. A nonprofit I’ve worked with got a sizeable anonymous donation some years back (kilobucks though, not megabucks). It was announced as having come from a single donor. I don’t know if the nonprofit’s higher ups were told the donor’s identity, but it was certainly no big deal for them to not publicize it.