MacKenzie Scott, the world’s 18th richest person and ex-wife of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, has donated more than $4 billion in four months after in July she announced $1.7 billion in gifts, a Bloomberg report said. 

Scott in a blog post on Tuesday outlined her latest contributions, saying she asked her team how to give away her fortune faster. The wealth of Scott, who is giving away her fortune at an unprecedented rate, has climbed to $60.7 billion this year from $23.6 billion as Amazon.com Inc., the primary source of her fortune, has surged, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. 

In a post on Medium, Scott wrote, “This pandemic has been a wrecking ball in the lives of Americans already struggling… Economic losses and health outcomes alike have been worse for women, for people of color and for people living in poverty. Meanwhile, it has substantially increased the wealth of billionaires.”

After considering almost 6,500 organisations, 384 groups will receive gifts, zeroed-in by Scott’s advisers, she said in the post. 

Donations were focused on those “operating in communities facing high projected food insecurity, high measures of racial inequity, high local poverty rates, and low access to philanthropic capital,” Bloomberg reported. 

The recipients of Scott’s wealth include more than 30 institutions of higher education, including several tribal colleges and historically Black colleges and universities, the report said, adding more than 40 food banks received money and almost four dozen local affiliates of Goodwill Industries International. 

The 50-year-old split with Amazon CEO Bezos last year and signed the Giving Pledge with a promise to give away the majority of her fortune, the report said.

“I have a disproportionate amount of money to share,” Scott wrote in her pledge. “My approach to philanthropy will continue to be thoughtful. It will take time and effort and care. But I won’t wait. And I will keep at it until the safe is empty.”