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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 |
| Rick and Francie Carr | Frances Cappa |
| Dean Owen Carrell | Allen Capps |
| Mark Cockerill and Marie Kennedy | Mable Crate |
| T. Gary and Diane Connett | 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 |
| Gene Elliott | 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 and Betty Hyde | William J. Gazecki |
| Bill Jenks & Cindy Craig | Charles E. and Thelma T. Gilmur |
| Neil Jerstad | Barb Granger |
| Marc & Marilyn* Jorgenson | Betty J. Green |
| J. Thomas Kuebler | Ryan Alan Hade |
| John and Evelyn La Fond | James and Enid Harris |
| Janice Y. Larson | Captain Fredaline Healy |
| James Law | Frances Heidner |
| Anthony S. and Bernice M. Lazar | Howard R. Kilworth |
| Amy and David Lewis | June R. Kilworth |
| Kathi L. Littmann | William W. Kilworth |
| Patricia Davison Mail | Peggy Lou Kopf |
| Joe and Gloria Mayer | Charles R. Lane |
| Jean McCord | Evelyn Larkin |
| David and Jeanne McGoldrick | George and Mary Long |
| Sue Barrett and Rick Meeder | Mrs. Grace M. Lynch |
| Joann Merrill and Wally Croshaw | Charles Matejka |
| Michael E. Mowat and Janet K. Runbeck | Natalie Mayer |
| Bob Myrick | Dr. Charles and Edith McGill |
| Susan and Darron* Nelson | Georgianna Miller |
| Katherine Oswalt | Grace M. and Bernard S. Miller |
| Sharon Oswalt | Gregory Miller |
| Pan Family | Helga Miller |
| Gayle Peach | Paul E. Miller |
| George and Jo Marie Pessemier | Emma Alida Moir |
| Oscar* and Virginia Peterson | Edith Moore |
| Redford Family | Claire K. Morris |
| Kit and Gary* Severson | Edgar Morrison |
| Cindy A. Smith | Richard D. Mosier |
| Sharon Snuffin | E. James and Hazel A. Nance |
| James and Myrna Sparks | Sue D. Nilsson |
| Shelby Clayson & Elaine Stafford | LaVerne and Lloyd Paff |
| Janie & Kirk Starr | Viola and Roger Paris |
| Jeffrey H Tepper | James W. and Frances C. Petersen |
| Sheri and Jeffrey Tonn | Raymond and Bernice Phillips |
| Dr. Pamela J. Transue | Vinod K. Rajpaul |
| Timothy and Barbara Tucci | Dr. Jerry V. Ramsey and Elaine Perdue |
| Terence T. Turner | John and Jean Reine |
| Emily & Bob* Vincent | Pearl Rose |
| James L. Walton | Anna M. Rundquist |
| Whitney Family | Kyile Lee Schreiner |
| M. Wayne Williams | Lloyd Silver |
| Anonymous (10) | 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)