Philanthropy Column

Virtually all of a Virginia millionaire's $25-million estate will be used to launch a charitable education fund.

The fund, to be formed from the riches of Claude Moore, a former doctor, real-estate magnate, and conservationist who died this summer, will be one of the largest philanthropies in the state, said Verlin W. Smith, a longtime friend of the deceased and one of three executors for the estate.

Mr. Smith said that instructions regarding the estate were not clear, and that he could not give details on how and when the education trust would be set up until legal...