First Coast YMCA received donation from MacKenzie Scott Lena Pringle, Anchor/traffic and general assignment reporter Published: Updated: Tags: Christmas came early for First Coast YMCA. The organization is one of 384 non-profits nationwide to receive a donation from author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott and one of the only three organizations on the first coast to get a monetary gift from Scott. Eric Mann, the president, and CEO of the First Coast YMCA says through his nearly 40 years working at the Y he has never seen this type of philanthropy with no strings attached giving the organization freedom to use the money however it chooses.