Whose giving how much to charity these days?
The hub-bub may currently be about the "extreme generosity" of our pals Bill and Melinda Gates (having won persons of the year from Time magazine and all) but they've given roughly $28 Billion in their lifetime - only
50% of their net worth. William (co-founder of BEA Systems) and Claudia Coleman have given some $254 million in their lifetime - while admittedly much less than $28 billion, it's a whopping 339% of their current net worth. That's the equivalent of Billy forking over
$190 billion.. that is to say: a lot of money.