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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
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GTCF Legacy Society Members
| Tony and Linda Anderson | Harold R. and Jessie B. Flowers* | Anthony S. and Bernice M. Lazar | Kit and Gary Severson |
| Julie L. Anderson and David K. Bates Fund | Dick and Mary Foege* | Amy and David Lewis | Lloyd Silver* |
| Mary Jane Aram* | Laura Foltz* | George and Mary Long* | Belle S. Smith* |
| Lea Armstong | James E. Frail* | Mrs. Grace M. Lynch | Cindy A. Smith |
| Elva Austin* | Elaine M. Fredrickson* | Joe and Gloria Mayer | Sharon Snuffin |
| George and Dorothy Babare* | Aurel A. Fries* | Jean McCord | James and Myrna Sparks |
| Baker Family* | Fuchs-Harden Family* | Dr. Charles and Edith McGill* | Shelby Clayson & Elaine Stafford |
| Leola B. Baron* | William J. Gazecki* | David and Jeanne McGoldrick | Marjorie H. Stansfield* |
| William* and Margaret Barton | Charles E. and Thelma T. Gilmur* | Sue Barrett and Rick Meeder | Janie & Kirk Starr |
| T.E. Batey, Jr. Family Fund | Barb Granger* | Joann Merrill and Wally Croshaw | David L. Strait* |
| John and Regina Becque | Betty J. Green* | Grace M. and Bernard S. Miller* | Angelica Strunz* |
| Karen Bellamy | Grogan Family | Emma Alida Moir* | Doris G. Stucke |
| Charles W. Bingham | Thomas A. Hackstadt and Laura T. Hackstadt | Claire K. Morris* | Mary Helen and Erling Thompson* |
| Carolyn Blasdel | Ryan Alan Hade* | Edgar Morrison* | Sheri and Jeffrey Tonn |
| Margaret J. Bock* | William and Noel Hagens | Richard D. Mosier* | Dr. Pamela J. Transue |
| Mrs. Ruth H. Bramhall* | Dr. C. Stevens and Cynthia E. Hammer | Michael E. Mowat and Janet K. Runbeck | Timothy and Barbara Tucci |
| Marydale Brooks* | Mary W. Hammond | Bob Myrick | Earl and June Veverka* |
| James and Ann Brown | James and Enid Harris | Sue D. Nilsson* | Emily & Bob Vincent |
| Allen Capps* | Mike and Nancy Harris | Pan Family | Heartie Griggs Wagner* |
| Rick and Francie Carr | Frances Heidner* | Viola and Roger Paris* | James L. Walton |
| Mark Cockerill and Marie Kennedy | John and Carole Holmaas | Gayle Peach | Virginia Funkley Ward* |
| T. Gary and Diane Connett | Suzanne O’Neil Johnson | James W. and Frances C. Petersen* | Agnes J. Waterhouse* |
| Mable Crate* | Kathleen Susan Keele | Oscar* and Virginia Peterson | Fred O. and Anona Weber* |
| Doris B. Crow* | Kevin and Sherrana Kildun | Raymond and Bernice Phillips* | Whitney Family |
| Ann and Peter Darling | Howard R. Kilworth* | Vinod K. Rajpaul* | Ann and James* Wiborg |
| Jo Davies | June R. Kilworth* | Dr. Jerry V. Ramsey and Elaine Perdue Ramsey | Fred Wilkeson* |
| Joseph H. Easterday* | William W. Kilworth* | Redford Family | Donald R. and Mary E. Williams* |
| Rick and Betsy Ellingson | J. Thomas Kuebler | John and Jean Reine* | M. Wayne Williams |
| Ruth Murphy Evans* | John and Evelyn La Fond | Pearl Rose* | Anonymous (34) |
| Loretta Faust* | Charles R. Lane* | Anna M. Rundquist* | |
| June Fayette* | Janice Y. Larson | Kyile 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)