At least nine more Minnesota-based nonprofits have received a major financial boost from billionaire MacKenzie Scott.

On Tuesday, Scott’s philanthropic group Yield Giving announced gifts for a total of 361 “community-led” nonprofits across the country. Unlike Scott’s prior gifts, recipients had to apply for this round of funding; more than 6,000 organizations had submitted applications, according to Yield Giving. This time, Scott gave more than $640 million.

Each of the winners were “evaluated by peer organizations,” according to Scott. The donations were given in recognition of the nonprofits’ “outstanding work advancing the voices and opportunities of individuals and families of meager or modest means, and groups who have met with discrimination and other systemic obstacles.”

The winners, Scott said, “are vital agents of change.”

Chicago-based Lever for Change also helped evaluate applicants.

The nine Minnesota-based recipients and their awards were:

• St. Paul-based Gender Justice, which seeks to “advance gender equity through the law” ($2 million)
• Minneapolis-based Dream of Wild Health, a group that aims to “restore health and well-being” to the Native community through access to healthy Indigenous foods, medicines, and ways of life ($1 million)
• St. Paul-based OutFront Minnesota, the state’s largest LGBTQ+ advocacy group ($2 million)
• St. Paul-based ISAIAH, a multi-racial, statewide interfaith group that aims to advance racial and economic justice ($2 million)
• Minneapolis-based WellShare International, which seeks to advance health equity through “community-defined solutions” ($2 million)
• Minneapolis-based Appetite For Change, which aims to use food to build “health, wealth, and social change” in North Minneapolis ($2 million)
• Brooklyn Center-based CAPI USA, a group that provides resources for immigrants and refugees ($2 million)
• Minneapolis-based Build Wealth Minnesota, which provides education, coaching, and access to financial services and products ($2 million)
• Minneapolis-based All Square, a nonprofit social enterprise that invests in people impacted by mass incarceration ($2 million)

Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has been making several big-ticket donations for a few years and has pledged to return the majority of her wealth “to the society that helped create it.”

For many recipients, the gifts are often the largest ever received. And, unlike traditional philanthropic gifts, Scott’s donations are unrestricted, which means nonprofits can use them however they wish.

“When we received the email, I was at an event and had to maintain my composure,” said CAPI CEO said Mary Niedermeyer in a statement. “We feel incredibly grateful and honored to receive this once in a lifetime gift. These funds will not only help CAPI boost our general operations, but they will also help us to establish a community reinvestment fund that is focused on the City of Brooklyn Center.”

Appetite For Change and CAPI were also recipients of TCB’s Community Impact Awards in 2022 and 2023, respectively.

Meanwhile, Minneapolis-based nonprofit Twin Cities Rise also announced Tuesday that it has received a $3 million gift from Scott, though that donation is from a separate funding round that hasn’t been formally unveiled quite yet. Twin Cities Rise provides jobs training and career placement services.

[Editor’s note: This article has been updated to include Minneapolis-based All Square and to clarify the timing of Twin Cities Rise’s gift.]