Advancing Health and Creating Lasting Impact: MacKenzie Scott’s Grants to Health Foundations

In 2019, MacKenzie Scott announced that she was stepping into the world of philanthropy to give away her multi-billion-dollar fortune “until the safe is empty”. She has kept her word—to date, she has given away $16.5 billion. Her initial process for choosing which organizations would receive grants was shrouded in mystery. From 2019 to 2023, Scott used a process she termed “quiet research” to identify possible grantee organizations. The lucky organizations received a call from Scott’s consultants, who let them know they were receiving a grant for immediate use however they would like to spend it. In the Fall of 2022, Grantmakers In Health (GIH) became one of those grantee organizations, along with more than 20 health foundations. Two additional GIH Funding Partner organizations received gifts in 2020 and 2021, respectively.

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The Interface Between Public Policy and the Private Sector

Read the keynote speech from GIH’s Washington Briefing by Mark Smith, president and CEO of California HealthCare Foundation.

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Call to Action: Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health

GIH produced both a chartbook and proceedings from this national leadership conference cosponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  The proceedings highlight keynote remarks from Surgeon General David Satcher.

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Health Care Conversion Foundations: 1997 Status Report

This 1997 report provides a status update on health care conversion foundations.

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The New “Conversion” Health Foundations: Preliminary Results of Grantmakers In Health Survey

April 1996. Call GIH to request this publication

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