MacKenzie Scott’s gifts come with no strings—but the four biggest donors to democracy programs put $189 million into institutes bearing their names
The four largest gifts to democracy programs from 2021 to 2025 created or expanded university institutes named for Leonard Schaeffer, the Rooneys, the Karshes, and the Kinders, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
What it means
- What to watch: The headline hangs on one number ($189 million) — one data point is a snapshot, so the trailing trend is the context it needs.
- How the stock is trading: $MKZR -3.73% in the latest session.
- Timing: It arrived overnight — the change beside it belongs to a session that had already packed up and gone home. Market holidays are not detected.
Where the stock stands
$MKZR last changed hands at $1.03, -3.73% on the session, 82% below its 52-week high of $5.60 and 24% above its low of $0.83 — within a tenth of its 52-week low. Over the year it has ranged 575% from low to high: a very wide band; big swings are routine for this one, not news. These are latest-session quotes, not live prices — the live tape is on the $MKZR page.
How much coverage it is getting
In the last 30 days Wook has filed 2 stories about $MKZR — 1 of them this week. At its 30-day pace you would expect less than one a week, so this week is running well ahead of normal; the press has found a reason to keep writing. Across those stories 1 read bullish, 1 neutral and 0 bearish. This one reads bullish, so it sits in step with most of the run. 2 of the 2 (100%) came from Fortune itself, so the count says as much about how often Fortune hits publish as about how much attention there is — the other outlets are the better gauge. 12 related stories — same name or same desk — are lined up beside this one if you want the whole thread.
The bigger picture
Real estate runs on borrowed money, which makes it the sector that feels interest rates first — after that it is occupancy and rents doing the talking. On Wook's supply-chain scanner, Real Estate reads calm today — no unusual stress in the filings and disclosures it watches. The scanner equivalent of a quiet night shift.
What to watch next
For the receipts, the $MKZR page has the full chart, the filings and the valuation model these figures come from. Because one outlet dominates the coverage, reading another outlet on the same story is the quickest check on whether it is being confirmed or just repeated. And Wook AI, up top, will happily do the math — how far $MKZR sits from its high, or how this week's coverage stacks up.
How this analysis was made
Fortune published it, and Wook filed it under Real Estate. It reads bullish at medium severity because of “expand” in the wording, with nothing on the bearish side to offset it. It was matched to $MKZR. It carried $189 million, shown as published and not recalculated. The preview above is the publisher's own wording.
The tone and severity labels come from a fixed word list — no editor, no AI, no crystal ball — so they describe how a story is worded, not what happens next. They are not a forecast or a recommendation, and a same-day move does not mean this story caused it. Not investment advice.
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