Steve Ballmer and his wife, Connie, have given a $600,000 grant, payable over three years, to Para Los Niños. Said Drew Furedi, “Their commitment to Para Los Niños will allow us to greatly deepen the academic, mental health, and social service supports we have in our schools and preschools.” And don’t put too much stock in Ballmer moving the Clippers to Inglewood. Seattle is a more likely choice. … Irish businessman and racehorse owner JP McManus has been hit with a hefty tax bill. The charge came after he won $17.4 million at backgammon from Alec Gores, who paid up but withheld $5.2 million in taxes. A federal court last week rejected McManus’ bid to recover the money from the IRS. … Los Angeles magazine reports that Dov Charney, hard at work at building his next apparel venture, is generating some income by renting some rooms in his Silver Lake mansion through Airbnb. … Alex Caputo-Pearl was elected to a second three-year term as president of United Teachers Los Angeles, receiving 82 percent of the vote. … PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Brian Cullinan has signed off Twitter, deleting his last tweet (“Best Actress Emma Stone backstage! #PWC”). The Wall Street Journal quoted Elise Buik, who spoke to him after the Oscars debacle, as saying “There’s no one who’s taking this harder than he is.” … Gil Elbaz has tapped Mandeep Mason managing director, Europe, in an effort to deepen Factual’s overseas client base. … There is buzz that Jeffrey Katzenberg has his eye on AwesomenessTV. He also has raised an additional $5 million, though for an entirely different cause. His annual “Night Before” Oscar party brought in $5 million for the Motion Picture & Television Fund. The event, held on the Fox lot, was attended by Ted Sarandos, Peter Rice, Kevin Tsujihara, Jeff Shell, and Bonnie Hammer. … Spotted by Page Six at Nate ’n Al’s the morning before the Oscars were Steve Tisch and Robert Kraft, who was reported to have joked to a nearby Larry King that he had just traded Tom Brady for Odell Beckham Jr. … Jessica Alba has signed on for the Rosewood Curators program of Rosewood Hotels & Resorts. The curators share travel tips and insider secrets for the brands’ properties. … Spending time at Miami’s Art Basel: Leonardo DiCaprio and Michael Eisner. … Creative Artists Agency held a nonpartisan summit that brought employees and invited guests face to face with political leaders, including Kamala Harris and Kevin McCarthy. Richard Lovett was quoted as saying it was part of a plan to help attendees “take immediate action in support of causes about which they are passionate.” … Speaking of mixing entertainment and politics, The Hollywood Reporter is saying that friends of Robert Iger are “nudging” him to consider a presidential run in 2020. … Ted Craver has been named to the board of Duke Energy. He will serve on the regulatory policy and operations and finance and risk management committees. … Department of Speculation Department: The Mercury News ventured some guesses as to who would be the first two to take Elon Musk up on his offer to fly a pair of space tourists around the moon late next year. (Dennis Tito told the Business Journal in September that he’s officially off any such list – his wife won’t let him.) One – obvious? – guess is that Musk himself will take the ride. Another is Richard Branson, whose competing space endeavor is also based in Los Angeles County. Or maybe Yuri Milner, the Russian billionaire named after Yuri Gagarin, who is bankrolling a fleet of spacecraft on their way to Alpha Centauri. … Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch, now owned by FOD Tom Barrack and called Sycamore Valley Ranch, is back on the market. Barrack once sought $100 million for the 2,700-acre, Santa Barbara-adjacent property. It’s now listed by Joyce Rey for $67 million.