Charitable Donations??

So Slate Magazine just released their list of the top 60 people who give. The people who have donated the most money during the 2004 year. I went through the list (http://www.slate.com/id/2112691/) and the top 3 people gave to their own foundations. Now to me that shouldn't really count as a chairitable donation. Why? Everyone knows that you can create a foundation in your own name to keep from being taxed on that huge amount of money that you just inherited, earned, whatever. It's not to say that these foundations don't do some good, but I don't think that these should be considered the top givers of 2004 just because they know how to avoid paying taxes on their large sums of money....