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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*Kit and Gary Severson
Julie L. Anderson and David K. Bates FundDick and Mary Foege*Mrs. Grace M. LynchLloyd Silver*
Mary Jane Aram*Laura Foltz*Joe and Gloria MayerBelle S. Smith*
Lea ArmstongJames E. Frail*Jean McCordCindy A. Smith
Elva Austin*Elaine M. Fredrickson*Dr. Charles and Edith McGill*Sharon Snuffin
George and Dorothy Babare*Aurel A. Fries*David and Jeanne McGoldrickJames and Myrna Sparks
Baker Family*Fuchs-Harden Family*Sue Barrett and Rick MeederShelby Clayson & Elaine Stafford
Leola B. Baron*William J. Gazecki*Joann Merrill and Wally CroshawMarjorie 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 FundBarb Granger*Emma Alida Moir*David L. Strait*
John and Regina BecqueBetty J. Green*Edith Moore*Angelica Strunz*
Karen BellamyGrogan FamilyClaire K. Morris*Doris G. Stucke
Charles W. BinghamThomas A. Hackstadt and Laura T. HackstadtEdgar Morrison*Mary Helen and Erling Thompson*
Carolyn BlasdelRyan Alan Hade*Richard D. Mosier*Sheri and Jeffrey Tonn
Margaret J. Bock*William and Noel HagensMichael E. Mowat and Janet K. RunbeckDr. Pamela J. Transue
Mrs. Ruth H. Bramhall*Dr. C. Stevens and Cynthia E. HammerBob MyrickTimothy and Barbara Tucci
Marydale Brooks*Mary W. HammondSue D. Nilsson*Earl and June Veverka*
James and Ann BrownJames and Enid HarrisPan FamilyEmily & Bob Vincent
Allen Capps*Mike and Nancy HarrisViola and Roger Paris*Heartie Griggs Wagner*
Rick and Francie CarrFrances Heidner*Gayle PeachJames L. Walton
Mark Cockerill and Marie KennedyJohn and Carole HolmaasGeorge and Jo Marie PessemierVirginia Funkley Ward*
T. Gary and Diane ConnettKevin and Sherrana KildunJames W. and Frances C. Petersen*Agnes J. Waterhouse*
Mable Crate*Howard R. Kilworth*Oscar* and Virginia PetersonFred O. and Anona Weber*
Doris B. Crow*June R. Kilworth*Raymond and Bernice Phillips*Whitney Family
Ann and Peter* DarlingWilliam W. Kilworth*Vinod K. Rajpaul*Ann and James* Wiborg
Jo DaviesJ. Thomas KueblerDr. Jerry V. Ramsey and Elaine Perdue RamseyFred Wilkeson*
Joseph H. Easterday*John and Evelyn La FondRedford FamilyDonald R. and Mary E. Williams*
Rick and Betsy EllingsonCharles R. Lane*John and Jean Reine*M. Wayne Williams
Ruth Murphy Evans*Janice Y. LarsonPearl Rose*Anonymous (34)
Loretta Faust*Anthony S. and Bernice M. LazarAnna M. Rundquist*
June Fayette*Amy and David LewisKyile 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)