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