Charitable contributions from individuals, corporations, and foundations totaled an estimated $335.17 billion in 2013, up 4.4 percent, or 3 percent in inflation-adjusted dollars, from the revised estimate of $320.97 billion for 2012, a new report from the Giving USA Foundation and the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy finds.

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