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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

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 AndersonHarold R. and Jessie B. Flowers*George and Mary Long*Kyile Lee Schreiner*
Julie L. Anderson and David K. Bates FundDick and Mary Foege*Mrs. Grace M. LynchKit and Gary Severson
Mary Jane Aram*Laura Foltz*Joe and Gloria MayerLloyd Silver*
Lea ArmstongJames E. Frail*Jean McCordBelle S. Smith*
Elva Austin*Elaine M. Fredrickson*Dr. Charles and Edith McGill*Cindy A. Smith
George and Dorothy Babare*Aurel A. Fries*David and Jeanne McGoldrickSharon Snuffin
Baker Family*Fuchs-Harden Family*Sue Barrett and Rick MeederJames and Myrna Sparks
Leola B. Baron*William J. Gazecki*Joann Merrill and Wally CroshawShelby Clayson & Elaine Stafford
William and Margaret Barton*Charles E. and Thelma T. Gilmur*Estate of Georgianna Miller* Marjorie H. Stansfield*
T.E. Batey, Jr. Family FundBarb Granger*Grace M. and Bernard S. Miller*Janie & Kirk Starr
John and Regina BecqueBetty J. Green*Estate of Helga Miller*David L. Strait*
Karen BellamyGrogan FamilyPaul E. Miller*Angelica Strunz*
Charles W. Bingham*Eulalie Fisher*Emma Alida Moir*Doris G. Stucke*
Carolyn BlasdelThomas A. Hackstadt and Laura T. HackstadtEdith Moore*Mary Helen and Erling Thompson*
Margaret J. Bock*Ryan Alan Hade*Claire K. Morris*Sheri and Jeffrey Tonn
Mrs. Ruth H. Bramhall*William and Noel HagensEdgar Morrison*Dr. Pamela J. Transue
Marydale Brooks*Dr. C. Stevens and Cynthia E. HammerRichard D. Mosier*Timothy and Barbara Tucci
James and Ann BrownMary W. HammondMichael E. Mowat and Janet K. RunbeckEarl and June Veverka*
Allen Capps*James and Enid Harris*Bob MyrickEmily & Bob Vincent
Rick and Francie CarrMike and Nancy HarrisSue D. Nilsson*Heartie Griggs Wagner*
Dean Owen CarrellFrances Heidner*Pan FamilyJames L. Walton
Mark Cockerill and Marie KennedyJohn and Carole HolmaasViola and Roger Paris*Virginia Funkley Ward*
T. Gary and Diane ConnettHoward R. Kilworth*Gayle PeachAgnes J. Waterhouse*
Mable Crate*June R. Kilworth*George and Jo Marie PessemierFred O. and Anona Weber*
Doris B. Crow*William W. Kilworth*James W. and Frances C. Petersen*Whitney Family
Ann and Peter* DarlingJ. Thomas KueblerOscar* and Virginia PetersonAnn and James Wiborg*
Jo DaviesJohn and Evelyn La FondRaymond and Bernice Phillips*Fred Wilkeson*
Joseph H. Easterday*Charles R. Lane*Vinod K. Rajpaul*Donald R. and Mary E. Williams*
Rick and Betsy EllingsonJanice Y. LarsonRedford FamilyM. Wayne Williams
Ruth Murphy Evans*Anthony S. and Bernice M. LazarJohn and Jean Reine*Anonymous (34)
Loretta Faust*Amy and David LewisPearl Rose*
June Fayette*Kathi L. LittmannAnna M. Rundquist*

*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)