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