Bequests & Memorials
Legacy giving helps ensure the community you care for now continues to be supported into the future.
Estate planning is one of the best ways to support charitable giving without limiting your flexibility or access to resources during your lifetime.
There are several ways to plan a legacy gift. OICF help you establish a legacy fund, accept gifts directly, or distribute a gift to other organizations to simplify your estate planning.
Legacy Funds: Establish a legacy fund to support one or many causes, now and in the future. We will create a fund agreement that records your charitable wishes. Your fund can:
- Distribute gifts immediately after your estate is settled,
- Provide support over a set number of years, or
- Become an endowment that delivers annual grants in your fund’s name.
Invest in OICF: Support capacity-building, grantmaking, and community initiatives to help us meet evolving needs across Orcas Island for generations to come with an unrestricted gift to OICF or with a gift to an OICF fund.
Community Nonprofits: OICF can help distribute your legacy gift to existing community funds held at OICF, or directly to the organizations and causes you care about.
Charitable Remainder Trusts: If OICF is named as the remainder beneficiary of your trust, distributions may support OICF or other causes you specify, or be directed to your donor advised fund at OICF, which allows family members or successor advisors to continue recommending grants to charities even after the trust terminates. This allows your family’s philanthropic legacy to continue and adapt to changing community needs over time.
Bequests
To plan your bequest by will or trust, please refer to our Sample Bequest Language. We encourage you to reach out to us and discuss your plans so we can be prepared to carry out your intentions.
Please discuss options with your attorney as you prepare to update your will, and be as clear as possible describing and planning your gift and the impact you wish to make.
As trusted stewards of community assets, we are honored to steward your legacy. We invite you to reach out to Lindsay Jennings with any questions and to plan a meeting to discuss your options.
Orcas Island Legacy Circle
Bequests may be made anonymously if you prefer, and your gift will remain confidential. Recognition of your bequest, however, has the added benefit of encouraging others to do the same. Below is a list of Orcas Island community members who have made a legacy commitment to one or more Orcas Island organizations and are Founding Members of the Orcas Island Legacy Circle.
Rachel Adams*
Rosemarie Altberg
Bill* & Valerie Anders
Marilyn Anderson*
Helen Bee
Diane Berreth & David Kobrin
Mary Blackstone
Diane Boteler & Bill Miller
Antoinette Botsford
Doug & Nancy Boyden
Janet Brownell & Lance Evans
Lisa Byers & Laurie Gallo
Hilary Canty & Henry Date
Rosalie Chantiny
Bruce & Marty Coffey
Martha Farish & Joe Cohen
Sam* & Cynthia Coleman
Roger Collier
Jim Connell & Susan Hull
Walt Corbin* & Gayle Keith Ashley
Carl de Boor
Bob Distler and Lolo Duni
Ellis Family
Dick* & Judy Evans
Peter Fisher
Winnie Adams & Bob Gamble
Rick Gould*
Susan & Wally Gudgell
Ginny Hawker & Theron Soderlund
Bob* & Phyllis Henigson
John F. Hogan Jr.
Sara Jane Johnson
Robert and Betty Lundeen*
Susan McBain & Steve Jung
Mary & Alan Morgan
Tom & Leslie Murdock
Gabriel Olmsted
Jon Kimura Parker & Aloysia Friedmann
Victoria & Bruce Parker
Barbara Bentley and Glenn Prestwich
Donna & Michael Riordan
Doug & Judy Schliebus
Dimitri & Lorena Stankevich
Millicent Vetterlein
Nani Warren*
Bob & Marsha Waunch
Howard Wright III & Kate Janeway
*Remembered with gratitude for their lasting impact