The super rich grew more charitable last year, as public opinion of them became less so. The 50 donors on The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s annual list of the most generous Americans gave a median of $61-million in 2011, compared with $39.6-million the previous year. Collectively, the philanthropists in The Chronicle’s rankings lavished $10.4-billion on charitable organizations last year, although a single bequest from the agribusiness heiress Margaret A. Cargill accounted for $6-billion of that total.

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