About the article "The 20 most generous people in the world"
The article is from: http://www.businessinsider.com/most-generous-people-in-the-world-2015-10?r=US&IR=T&IR=T/#20-dietmar-hopp-1. ALL INFORMATION IS FROM THERE UNLESS NOTED!
If you read the whole article you see that all the 20 people were men. In total they have donated $106.8 billion in their lives. That is roughly equivalent to the entire gross domestic product of Morocco according to the World Bank. Several of the donors have set up their own foundations, including Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Simons Foundation.