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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 Planned Giving Toolkit
Our Legacy Planned Giving Toolkit offers information on gift options, tools, and resources to help you achieve exponentially more with your charitable giving and philanthropic goals.
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.
Click here to find more examples of bequest language you can use.
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 Stacey Guadnola, Director of Philanthropic Engagement at 253.345.4172.
GTCF Legacy Stories
Complex Gifts Can Simply Transform Communities
GTCF Legacy Society Members
| Tony and Linda Anderson | Harold R. and Jessie B. Flowers* | George and Mary Long* | Lloyd Silver* |
| Julie L. Anderson and David K. Bates Fund | Dick and Mary Foege* | Mrs. Grace M. Lynch | Belle S. Smith* |
| Mary Jane Aram* | Laura Foltz* | Joe and Gloria Mayer | Cindy A. Smith |
| Lea Armstong | James E. Frail* | Jean McCord | Sharon Snuffin |
| Elva Austin* | Elaine M. Fredrickson* | Dr. Charles and Edith McGill* | James and Myrna Sparks |
| George and Dorothy Babare* | Aurel A. Fries* | David and Jeanne McGoldrick | Shelby Clayson & Elaine Stafford |
| Baker Family* | Fuchs-Harden Family* | Sue Barrett and Rick Meeder | Marjorie H. Stansfield* |
| Leola B. Baron* | William J. Gazecki* | Joann Merrill and Wally Croshaw | Janie & Kirk Starr |
| William and Margaret Barton* | Charles E. and Thelma T. Gilmur* | Grace M. and Bernard S. Miller* | David L. Strait* |
| T.E. Batey, Jr. Family Fund | Barb Granger* | Emma Alida Moir* | Angelica Strunz* |
| John and Regina Becque | Betty J. Green* | Claire K. Morris* | Doris G. Stucke |
| Karen Bellamy | Grogan Family | Edgar Morrison* | Mary Helen and Erling Thompson* |
| Charles W. Bingham | Thomas A. Hackstadt and Laura T. Hackstadt | Richard D. Mosier* | Sheri and Jeffrey Tonn |
| Carolyn Blasdel | Ryan Alan Hade* | Michael E. Mowat and Janet K. Runbeck | Dr. Pamela J. Transue |
| Margaret J. Bock* | William and Noel Hagens | Bob Myrick | Timothy and Barbara Tucci |
| Mrs. Ruth H. Bramhall* | Dr. C. Stevens and Cynthia E. Hammer | Sue D. Nilsson* | Earl and June Veverka* |
| Marydale Brooks* | Mary W. Hammond | Pan Family | Emily & Bob Vincent |
| James and Ann Brown | James and Enid Harris | Viola and Roger Paris* | Heartie Griggs Wagner* |
| Allen Capps* | Mike and Nancy Harris | Gayle Peach | James L. Walton |
| Rick and Francie Carr | Frances Heidner* | George and Jo Marie Pessemier | Virginia Funkley Ward* |
| Mark Cockerill and Marie Kennedy | John and Carole Holmaas | James W. and Frances C. Petersen* | Agnes J. Waterhouse* |
| T. Gary and Diane Connett | Kevin and Sherrana Kildun | Oscar* and Virginia Peterson | Fred O. and Anona Weber* |
| Mable Crate* | Howard R. Kilworth* | Raymond and Bernice Phillips* | Whitney Family |
| Doris B. Crow* | June R. Kilworth* | Vinod K. Rajpaul* | Ann and James* Wiborg |
| Ann and Peter* Darling | William W. Kilworth* | Dr. Jerry V. Ramsey and Elaine Perdue Ramsey | Fred Wilkeson* |
| Jo Davies | J. Thomas Kuebler | Redford Family | Donald R. and Mary E. Williams* |
| Joseph H. Easterday* | John and Evelyn La Fond | John and Jean Reine* | M. Wayne Williams |
| Rick and Betsy Ellingson | Charles R. Lane* | Pearl Rose* | Anonymous (34) |
| Ruth Murphy Evans* | Janice Y. Larson | Anna M. Rundquist* | |
| Loretta Faust* | Anthony S. and Bernice M. Lazar | Kyile Lee Schreiner* | |
| June Fayette* | Amy and David Lewis | Kit and Gary Severson |
*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)