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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

Future Legacy FundsFulfilled Legacies*
Al and Sachiko Abbott  Mary Jane Aram
Tony and Linda AndersonEmma T. Archer
Julie L. Anderson and David K. Bates FundElva Austin
Lea ArmstongGeorge and Dorothy Babare
T.E. Batey, Jr. Family Fund Baker Family
John and Regina BecqueLeola 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 BlasdelAngeline Cappa
James and Ann BrownBetty Jane Cappa
Rick and Francie CarrFrances Cappa
Dean Owen CarrellAllen Capps
Mark Cockerill and Marie KennedyMable Crate
Bob and Kathryn Dalton Doris B. Crow
Ann and Peter* DarlingGeraldine Delano Derrico
Jo DaviesJoseph H. Easterday
John C. Delo Iris F. Elliott
Ralph and Linda Drews Ruth Murphy Evans
Rick and Betsy EllingsonLoretta Faust
Gene ElliottJune Fayette
Grogan FamilyEulalie Fisher
Thomas A. Hackstadt and Laura T. HackstadtHarold R. and Jessie B. Flowers
William and Noel HagensDick and Mary Foege
Dr. C. Stevens and Cynthia E. HammerLaura Foltz
Mary W. HammondJames E. Frail
Mike and Nancy HarrisElaine M. Fredrickson
John and Carole Holmaas Aurel A. Fries
Edward HudsonFuchs-Harden Family
Bill and Betty HydeMina Garrison
Bill Jenks & Cindy CraigWilliam J. Gazecki
Neil Jerstad Charles E. and Thelma T. Gilmur
Marc & Marilyn* Jorgenson Barb Granger
J. Thomas KueblerBetty J. Green
John and Evelyn La FondRyan Alan Hade
Janice Y. LarsonJames and Enid Harris
James Law Captain Fredaline Healy
Anthony S. and Bernice M. LazarFrances Heidner
Amy and David* LewisHoward R. Kilworth
Kathi L. LittmannJune R. Kilworth
Patricia Davison Mail William W. Kilworth
Joe and Gloria MayerPeggy Lou Kopf
Jean McCordCharles R. Lane
David and Jeanne McGoldrickEvelyn Larkin
Sue Barrett and Rick MeederGeorge and Mary Long
Joann Merrill and Wally CroshawMrs. Grace M. Lynch
Michael E. Mowat and Janet K. RunbeckCharles Matejka
Bob MyrickNatalie Mayer
Susan and Darron* Nelson Dr. Charles and Edith McGill
Todd Newman & Erica WilliamsGeorgianna Miller
Katherine Oswalt Grace M. and Bernard S. Miller
Sharon Oswalt Gregory Miller
Pan FamilyHelga Miller
Gayle PeachPaul E. Miller
George and Jo Marie PessemierEmma Alida Moir
Oscar* and Virginia PetersonEdith Moore
Redford Family Claire K. Morris
Kit and Gary* Severson Edgar Morrison
Cindy A. SmithRichard D. Mosier
Sharon SnuffinE. James and Hazel A. Nance
James and Myrna SparksSue D. Nilsson
Shelby Clayson & Elaine StaffordLaVerne and Lloyd Paff
Janie & Kirk StarrViola and Roger Paris
Jeffrey H TepperJames W. and Frances C. Petersen
Sheri and Jeffrey TonnRaymond and Bernice Phillips
Dr. Pamela J. TransueVinod K. Rajpaul
Timothy and Barbara Tucci Dr. Jerry V. Ramsey and Elaine Perdue
Terence T. TurnerJohn and Jean Reine
Emily & Bob* VincentPearl Rose
James L. WaltonAnna M. Rundquist
Whitney FamilyKyile Lee Schreiner
M. Wayne WilliamsLloyd Silver
Anonymous (10) Belle S. Smith
Marjorie H. Stansfield
David L. Strait
Viora Strait
Angelica Strunz
Doris G. Stucke
Mary Helen and Erling Thompson
Michael A. Tucci
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)