Advisors
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
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 | Dick and Mary Foege* | Anthony S. and Bernice M. Lazar | Kyile Lee Schreiner* |
| Julie L. Anderson and David K. Bates Fund | Laura Foltz* | Amy and David Lewis | Kit and Gary Severson |
| Mary Jane Aram* | James E. Frail* | George and Mary Long* | Lloyd Silver* |
| Lea Armstong | Elaine M. Fredrickson* | Mrs. Grace M. Lynch | Belle S. Smith* |
| Elva Austin* | Aurel A. Fries* | Joe and Gloria Mayer | Cindy A. Smith |
| George and Dorothy Babare* | Fuchs-Harden Family* | Jean McCord | Sharon Snuffin |
| Baker Family* | William J. Gazecki* | Dr. Charles and Edith McGill* | James and Myrna Sparks |
| Leola B. Baron* | Charles E. and Thelma T. Gilmur* | David and Jeanne McGoldrick | Shelby Clayson & Elaine Stafford |
| William* and Margaret Barton | Barb Granger* | Sue Barrett and Rick Meeder | Marjorie H. Stansfield* |
| T.E. Batey, Jr. Family Fund | Betty J. Green* | Joann Merrill and Wally Croshaw | Janie & Kirk Starr |
| John and Regina Becque | Grogan Family | Grace M. and Bernard S. Miller* | David L. Strait* |
| Karen Bellamy | Thomas A. Hackstadt and Laura T. Hackstadt | Emma Alida Moir* | Angelica Strunz* |
| Charles W. Bingham | Ryan Alan Hade* | Claire K. Morris* | Doris G. Stucke |
| Carolyn Blasdel | William and Noel Hagens | Edgar Morrison* | Mary Helen and Erling Thompson* |
| Margaret J. Bock* | Dr. C. Stevens and Cynthia E. Hammer | Richard D. Mosier* | Sheri and Jeffrey Tonn |
| Mrs. Ruth H. Bramhall* | Mary W. Hammond | Michael E. Mowat and Janet K. Runbeck | Dr. Pamela J. Transue |
| Marydale Brooks* | James and Enid Harris | Bob Myrick | Timothy and Barbara Tucci |
| James and Ann Brown | Mike and Nancy Harris | Sue D. Nilsson* | Earl and June Veverka* |
| Allen Capps* | Frances Heidner* | Pan Family | Emily & Bob Vincent |
| Rick and Francie Carr | John and Carole Holmaas | Viola and Roger Paris* | Heartie Griggs Wagner* |
| Mark Cockerill and Marie Kennedy | Suzanne O’Neil Johnson | Gayle Peach | James L. Walton |
| T. Gary and Diane Connett | Kathleen Susan Keele | James W. and Frances C. Petersen* | Virginia Funkley Ward* |
| Mable Crate* | Kevin and Sherrana Kildun | Oscar* and Virginia Peterson | Agnes J. Waterhouse* |
| Doris B. Crow* | Howard R. Kilworth* | Raymond and Bernice Phillips* | Fred O. and Anona Weber* |
| Ann and Peter Darling | June R. Kilworth* | Vinod K. Rajpaul* | Whitney Family |
| Joseph H. Easterday* | William W. Kilworth* | Dr. Jerry V. Ramsey and Elaine Perdue Ramsey | Ann and James* Wiborg |
| Rick and Betsy Ellingson | J. Thomas Kuebler | Redford Family | Fred Wilkeson* |
| Ruth Murphy Evans* | John and Evelyn La Fond | John and Jean Reine* | Donald R. and Mary E. Williams* |
| Loretta Faust* | Charles R. Lane* | Pearl Rose* | M. Wayne Williams |
| June Fayette* | Janice Y. Larson | Anna M. Rundquist* | Anonymous (34) |
| Harold R. and Jessie B. Flowers* |
*Deceased