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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 | FUFILLED 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 | Mrs. Ruth H. Bramhall |
| Carolyn Blasdel | Marydale Brooks |
| James and Ann Brown | Angeline Cappa |
| Rick and Francie Carr | Betty Jane Cappa |
| Dean Owen Carrell | Frances Cappa |
| Mark Cockerill and Marie Kennedy | Allen Capps |
| T. Gary and Diane Connett | Mable Crate |
| Bob^ and Kathryn Dalton | Doris B. Crow |
| Ann and Peter* Darling | Geraldine Delano Derrico |
| Jo Davies | Joseph H. Easterday |
| John C. Delo | Iris F. Elliott |
| Ralph and Linda Drews | Ruth Murphy Evans |
| Rick and Betsy Ellingson | Loretta Faust |
| Gene Elliott | June Fayette |
| Grogan Family | Eulalie Fisher |
| Thomas A. Hackstadt and Laura T. Hackstadt | Harold R. and Jessie B. Flowers |
| William and Noel Hagens | Dick and Mary Foege |
| Dr. C. Stevens and Cynthia E. Hammer | Laura Foltz |
| Mary W. Hammond | James E. Frail |
| Mike and Nancy Harris | Elaine M. Fredrickson |
| John and Carole Holmaas | Aurel A. Fries |
| Edward Hudson | Fuchs-Harden Family |
| Bill and Betty Hyde^ | 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 | Captain Fredaline Healy |
| Anthony S. and Bernice M. Lazar | Frances Heidner |
| Amy and David Lewis | Howard R. Kilworth |
| Kathi L. Littmann | June R. Kilworth |
| Patricia Davison Mail | William W. Kilworth |
| Joe and Gloria Mayer | Peggy Lou Kopf |
| Jean McCord | Charles R. Lane |
| David and Jeanne McGoldrick | Evelyn Larkin |
| Sue Barrett and Rick Meeder | George and Mary Long |
| Joann Merrill and Wally Croshaw | Mrs. Grace M. Lynch |
| Michael E. Mowat and Janet K. Runbeck | Charles Matejka |
| Bob Myrick | Natalie Mayer |
| Susan and Darron* Nelson | Dr. Charles and Edith McGill |
| Katherine Oswalt | Georgianna Miller |
| Sharon Oswalt | Grace M. and Bernard S. Miller |
| Pan Family | Gregory Miller |
| Gayle Peach | Helga Miller |
| George and Jo Marie Pessemier | Paul E. Miller |
| Oscar* and Virginia Peterson | Emma Alida Moir |
| Redford Family | Edith Moore |
| Kit and Gary* Severson | Claire K. Morris |
| Cindy A. Smith | Edgar Morrison |
| Sharon Snuffin | Richard D. Mosier |
| James and Myrna Sparks | E. James and Hazel A. Nance |
| Shelby Clayson & Elaine Stafford | Sue D. Nilsson |
| Janie & Kirk Starr | 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 | Pearl Rose |
| M. Wayne Williams | Anna M. Rundquist |
| Anonymous (10) | 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 | |
| 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 |
*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)