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GTCF Legacy Society
GTCF celebrates your commitment to build a thriving Pierce County for generations to come.
You’ve spent a lifetime caring for your community. Through legacy gifts, GTCF ensures that the causes you care about are supported in perpetuity.
Our greatest assets are long-term, trusted relationships with people and organizations across Pierce County. Combined with our philanthropic tools, we help you build pathways for charitable giving that make a difference now, and for generations to come.
Members of GTCF’s Legacy Society ensure their philanthropic impact will endure for generations. Through a legacy gift, individuals can establish giving strategies that support the issues and opportunities that matter to them in perpetuity.
GTCF Legacy Opportunities
- Legacy Giving Made Simple
- Bequest Language
- GTCF Legacy Stories
- GTCF Legacy Society Members
- News and Important Dates
Legacy Giving Made Simple
From simple bequests to complex estate plans to life income gifts, GTCF offers opportunities to leave a lasting legacy. Many people choose to leave charitable assets or gifts both to and through GTCF to support organizations and causes they care about. GTCF also offers significant expertise in planned gifts.
Read about the potential legacy giving has to transform Pierce County in this 2021 Transfer of Wealth report.
Bequest Language
I hereby give, devise and bequeath _________ and No/100 dollars ($DOLLARS) to Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, a nonprofit organization located at 950 Pacific Ave, Tacoma, WA, 98402, Federal Tax ID #91-1007459, for Greater Tacoma Community Foundation’s general use and purpose.
Donors who name GTCF in their estate plans are recognized as members of the Legacy Society.
If you or your financial advisor have questions about estate gifts, please contact Doug Page, Senior Legacy Advisor at 253.345.4188.
GTCF Legacy Stories
Complex Gifts Can Simply Transform Communities
GTCF Legacy Society Members
| Future Legacy Funds | Fulfilled Legacies* |
| Al and Sachiko Abbott | Mary Jane Aram |
| Tony and Linda Anderson | Emma T. Archer |
| Julie L. Anderson and David K. Bates Fund | Elva Austin |
| Lea Armstong | George and Dorothy Babare |
| T.E. Batey, Jr. Family Fund | Baker Family |
| John and Regina Becque | Leola B. Baron |
| Karen Bellamy | William and Margaret Barton |
| Dr. David and Linda* BeMiller | Charles W. Bingham |
| Wendy Bergman | Margaret J. Bock |
| Neil Beirmann & Jane Gingrich | Marydale Brooks |
| Carolyn Blasdel | Angeline Cappa |
| James and Ann Brown | Betty Jane Cappa |
| Susan Brown Hays | Frances Cappa |
| Rick and Francie Carr | Allen Capps |
| Dean Owen Carrell | Mable Crate |
| Mark Cockerill and Marie Kennedy | Doris B. Crow |
| Bob* and Kathryn Dalton | Geraldine Delano Derrico |
| Ann and Peter* Darling | Joseph H. Easterday |
| Jo Davies | Iris F. Elliott |
| John C. Delo | Ruth Murphy Evans |
| Ralph and Linda Drews | Loretta Faust |
| Rick and Betsy Ellingson | June Fayette |
| Joe & Sandra Gordon | Eulalie Fisher |
| Grogan Family | Harold R. and Jessie B. Flowers |
| Thomas A. Hackstadt and Laura T. Hackstadt | Dick and Mary Foege |
| William and Noel Hagens | Laura Foltz |
| Dr. C. Stevens and Cynthia E. Hammer | James E. Frail |
| Mary W. Hammond | Elaine M. Fredrickson |
| Mike and Nancy Harris | Aurel A. Fries |
| John and Carole Holmaas | Fuchs-Harden Family |
| Edward Hudson | Mina Garrison |
| Bill Jenks & Cindy Craig | William J. Gazecki |
| Neil Jerstad | Charles E. and Thelma T. Gilmur |
| Marc & Marilyn* Jorgenson | Barb Granger |
| J. Thomas Kuebler | Betty J. Green |
| John and Evelyn La Fond | Ryan Alan Hade |
| Janice Y. Larson | James and Enid Harris |
| James Law | Gerald and Susan Hartman |
| Anthony S. and Bernice M. Lazar | Captain Fredaline Healy |
| Amy and David* Lewis | Frances Heidner |
| Kathi L. Littmann | Wynn R. Hoffman |
| Patricia Davison Mail | Bill and Betty Hyde |
| Joe and Gloria Mayer | Howard R. Kilworth |
| Jean McCord | June R. Kilworth |
| David and Jeanne McGoldrick | William W. Kilworth |
| Sue Barrett and Rick Meeder | Peggy Lou Kopf |
| Joann Merrill and Wally Croshaw | Charles R. Lane |
| Michael E. Mowat and Janet K. Runbeck | Evelyn Larkin |
| Bob Myrick | George and Mary Long |
| Susan and Darron* Nelson | Mrs. Grace M. Lynch |
| Todd Newman & Erica Williams | Charles Matejka |
| Jacquelyn Ostrom | Natalie Mayer |
| Katherine Oswalt | Dr. Charles and Edith McGill |
| Sharon Oswalt | Georgianna Miller |
| Pan Family | Grace M. and Bernard S. Miller |
| Gayle Peach | Gregory Miller |
| George and Jo Marie Pessemier | Helga Miller |
| Oscar* and Virginia Peterson | Paul E. Miller |
| Redford Family | Emma Alida Moir |
| Kit and Gary* Severson | Edith Moore |
| Cindy A. Smith | Claire K. Morris |
| Sharon Snuffin | Edgar Morrison |
| James and Myrna Sparks | Richard D. Mosier |
| Shelby Clayson & Elaine Stafford | E. James and Hazel A. Nance |
| Janie & Kirk Starr | Sue D. Nilsson |
| Jeffrey H Tepper | LaVerne and Lloyd Paff |
| Sheri and Jeffrey Tonn | Viola and Roger Paris |
| Dr. Pamela J. Transue | James W. and Frances C. Petersen |
| Timothy and Barbara Tucci | Raymond and Bernice Phillips |
| Terence T. Turner | Vinod K. Rajpaul |
| Emily & Bob* Vincent | Dr. Jerry V. Ramsey and Elaine Perdue |
| James L. Walton | John and Jean Reine |
| Whitney Family | Nina Rook |
| M. Wayne Williams | Pearl Rose |
| Anonymous (10) | Anna M. Rundquist |
| Kyile Lee Schreiner | |
| Lloyd Silver | |
| Belle S. Smith | |
| Marjorie H. Stansfield | |
| David L. Strait | |
| Viora Strait | |
| Angelica Strunz | |
| Doris G. Stucke | |
| Mary Helen and Erling Thompson | |
| Michael A. Tucci Sr. | |
| Earl and June Veverka | |
| Heartie Griggs Wagner | |
| Virginia Funkley Ward | |
| Agnes J. Waterhouse | |
| Fred O. and Anona Weber | |
| Ann and James Wiborg | |
| G. Fred Wilkinson | |
| Donald R. and Mary E. Williams | |
| Fredrick and Ingrid Willis |
*Deceased
News and Important Dates
Evelyn Ryberg (Leave 10 South Sound), Rick Oldenburg (South Sound Planned Giving Council), and Jan Jacobs (Bank of America) discuss the movement of Leave 10, and how charitable giving can support our community, on an episode of KBTC Public Television’s Northwest Now. (March, 30, 2023)