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