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