Legacy Stories celebrate the individuals and families who have chosen to partner with the Skagit Community Foundation through their estate plans. Planned giving with SCF offers a wide range of flexible options: whether you wish to make simple gifts to the nonprofits you care about, or create a lasting philanthropic opportunity that strengthens a cause close to your heart.
By working with SCF, charitable wishes can evolve as your life and priorities change. You can update your preferred nonprofits without modifying your will, or work with us to design a new fund or initiative that will support the community for generations.
Each legacy reflects what matters most to the person: their values, their hopes for Skagit County, and their belief in giving back.
Explore the stories below to see the many ways community members are shaping Skagit’s future through planned giving.
By working with SCF, charitable wishes can evolve as your life and priorities change. You can update your preferred nonprofits without modifying your will, or work with us to design a new fund or initiative that will support the community for generations.
Each legacy reflects what matters most to the person: their values, their hopes for Skagit County, and their belief in giving back.
Explore the stories below to see the many ways community members are shaping Skagit’s future through planned giving.
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McIntyre Hall Local performing arts FundThe McIntyre Hall Local Performing Arts grant opportunity has grown tenfold since its founding in 2022, an incredible gift to our community. The Skagit Community Foundation is honored to support the McIntyre Hall Local Performing Arts Grants, helping musicians and performers of all ages remind us how deeply the arts connect us as a community. This fund provides annual grant funding to local not-for-profit performing arts groups (including school-affiliated groups) to use for venue expenses & fees to perform at McIntyre Hall.
Thank you so much to founding donor Jacqueline Stegner for enriching and empowering the arts in our Skagit community, and for all donors who have contributed to this important opportunity as well as the dedicated volunteer grantmaking review committees. |
Diane Webb books for children programIn 2024, Diane Webb’s family partnered with the Skagit Community Foundation to create the Diane Webb Endowment for Children’s Books & Programs, ensuring lasting support for Family Promise of Skagit Valley and local library foundations.
Through the Diane Webb Books for Children Program, SCF provides annual funding for libraries to work with their school districts to bring new books directly to elementary students. The first partners La Conner Swinomish Library (2024) and Anacortes Library (2025) now reach 1,460 children twice each year through in-school book-choice events that celebrate reading and connect kids with their local libraries. Designed to expand countywide, the program adapts to each community’s needs while SCF provides consistent support and stewardship. With each book gifted, a growing young child is reminded: you are a reader, and new adventures are just a page away. |
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Planned Giving
SCF offers flexibility for your charitable giving without the need to continually update your will or estate plan.
Create, update, and revise your donor intent with us to benefit our local community with your legacy.
Create a Donor Intent Document
Create, edit, and update estate gift designations without needed to update a will
Pass-Through Gifts to 1+ Nonprofits
Provide a single, complete distribution so that the organization(s) may benefi t from the full impact of your legacy at one time.
Give to 1+ Existing Charitable Funds
Contribute to an established endowment benefitting your favorite nonprofit(s).
Create Your Own Fund
Design a charitable purpose, area of interest, designate specific nonprofit(s), or create a scholarship with your goals, values, and ideas in mind. Starting small today can build a relationship, confidence, trust, and history that will carry forward in our community.
SCF offers flexibility for your charitable giving without the need to continually update your will or estate plan.
Create, update, and revise your donor intent with us to benefit our local community with your legacy.
Create a Donor Intent Document
Create, edit, and update estate gift designations without needed to update a will
Pass-Through Gifts to 1+ Nonprofits
Provide a single, complete distribution so that the organization(s) may benefi t from the full impact of your legacy at one time.
Give to 1+ Existing Charitable Funds
Contribute to an established endowment benefitting your favorite nonprofit(s).
Create Your Own Fund
Design a charitable purpose, area of interest, designate specific nonprofit(s), or create a scholarship with your goals, values, and ideas in mind. Starting small today can build a relationship, confidence, trust, and history that will carry forward in our community.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank
It is important to inform the Skagit Community Foundation if you plan to name it as a beneficiary from your retirement account. Retirement plan custodians have no legal obligation to inform beneficiaries that the plan holder has passed away. If the Skagit Community Foundation is unaware of your plans to leave a gift from your retirement fund, we have no way of following up with the custodian. Therefore, please share your gift intentions with us so we can fulfill your philanthropic intentions.
The Skagit Community Foundation's Roots
The Skagit Community Foundation has roots deep in the people and values of this valley.
Many great people came together to instill a lasting impact on Skagit County.
The Skagit Community Foundation has roots deep in the people and values of this valley.
Many great people came together to instill a lasting impact on Skagit County.
To learn more about creating your Legacy Story, contact Jill Pickering,
Director of Development at [email protected]
Director of Development at [email protected]
