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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* | Kyile Lee Schreiner* |
| Julie L. Anderson and David K. Bates Fund | Dick and Mary Foege* | Mrs. Grace M. Lynch | Kit and Gary Severson |
| Mary Jane Aram* | Laura Foltz* | Joe and Gloria Mayer | Lloyd Silver* |
| Lea Armstong | James E. Frail* | Jean McCord | Belle 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 McGoldrick | Sharon Snuffin |
| Baker Family* | Fuchs-Harden Family* | Sue Barrett and Rick Meeder | James and Myrna Sparks |
| Leola B. Baron* | William J. Gazecki* | Joann Merrill and Wally Croshaw | Shelby 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 Fund | Barb Granger* | Grace M. and Bernard S. Miller* | Janie & Kirk Starr |
| John and Regina Becque | Betty J. Green* | Estate of Helga Miller* | David L. Strait* |
| Karen Bellamy | Grogan Family | Paul E. Miller* | Angelica Strunz* |
| Charles W. Bingham* | Eulalie Fisher* | Emma Alida Moir* | Doris G. Stucke* |
| Carolyn Blasdel | Thomas A. Hackstadt and Laura T. Hackstadt | Edith 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 Hagens | Edgar Morrison* | Dr. Pamela J. Transue |
| Marydale Brooks* | Dr. C. Stevens and Cynthia E. Hammer | Richard D. Mosier* | Timothy and Barbara Tucci |
| James and Ann Brown | Mary W. Hammond | Michael E. Mowat and Janet K. Runbeck | Earl and June Veverka* |
| Allen Capps* | James and Enid Harris* | Bob Myrick | Emily & Bob Vincent |
| Rick and Francie Carr | Mike and Nancy Harris | Sue D. Nilsson* | Heartie Griggs Wagner* |
| Dean Owen Carrell | Frances Heidner* | Pan Family | James L. Walton |
| Mark Cockerill and Marie Kennedy | John and Carole Holmaas | Viola and Roger Paris* | Virginia Funkley Ward* |
| T. Gary and Diane Connett | Howard R. Kilworth* | Gayle Peach | Agnes J. Waterhouse* |
| Mable Crate* | June R. Kilworth* | George and Jo Marie Pessemier | Fred O. and Anona Weber* |
| Doris B. Crow* | William W. Kilworth* | James W. and Frances C. Petersen* | Whitney Family |
| Ann and Peter* Darling | J. Thomas Kuebler | Oscar* and Virginia Peterson | Ann and James Wiborg* |
| Jo Davies | John and Evelyn La Fond | Raymond and Bernice Phillips* | Fred Wilkeson* |
| Joseph H. Easterday* | Charles R. Lane* | Vinod K. Rajpaul* | Donald R. and Mary E. Williams* |
| Rick and Betsy Ellingson | Janice Y. Larson | Redford Family | M. Wayne Williams |
| Ruth Murphy Evans* | Anthony S. and Bernice M. Lazar | John and Jean Reine* | Anonymous (34) |
| Loretta Faust* | Amy and David Lewis | Pearl Rose* | |
| June Fayette* | Kathi L. Littmann | Anna 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)