Calif. Fund Gets a $200-Million Surprise

Mary Joan Palevsky, a Los Angeles philanthropist and former wife of a computer-technology tycoon, left $200-million from her estate to the California Community Foundation, a Los Angeles fund that supports the arts and human development, community revitalization, education, and health care. Her gift, which she said could be used any way the organization wanted, came as a surprise, since her only other donation to the foundation amounted to $2,200 and was made in 1997.

"It was a shock,"

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