The Gig Harbor Rotary Foundation

Rotary has been a trusted organization in Gig Harbor and on the Key Peninsula for 50 years, championing causes locally and globally to help individuals and communities thrive through service, fellowship, and partnership.

With more than $4 million in assets, the Gig Harbor Rotary Foundation transforms your gifts and bequests into programs that change lives, locally and globally.

Causes You Care About:

Encouraging Education
Empowering Youth in our Community
Fighting Disease Around the World
Protecting the Environment
Growing Local Economies Here and Abroad
International Action Where Help is Needed

The Gig Harbor Rotary Foundation is a 501 (c) 3 not-for-profit charitable organization. Our Tax Identification Number is 91-1447031.

Our Mission

We transform your gifts into dynamic projects locally and globally, supporting the causes you care about.

Our Vision

We see an engaged community creating change for good that is larger than any one of us can imagine on our own.

Our Approach

We are the charitable arm of the Rotary Club of Gig Harbor.

We approach our investing with a strategy that seeks to engage, invest in, and strengthen our community.

The Gig Harbor Rotary Foundation benefits from the vision and leadership of experienced board members. Because of their leadership, the Foundation maintains a sound strategic investment strategy.

Working With You

As your partner in giving, we offer expertise and many benefits to you.

SERVICE AND TRUST

We value and honor the trust you have placed in us to manage your contribution and honor your vision.

FLEXIBILITY

We will meet with you and your advisors to understand your goals and desires for philanthropic impact. Together we can find the solution for your charitable estate planning.

LOCAL PARTNER

We live here. We work here. We volunteer here. Our goal is to make Gig Harbor a better place. We welcome partners like you to join us in those efforts.

COMMUNITY KNOWLEDGE

We know a lot about our communities. We can provide relevant information and expertise on charitable giving and community needs and issues.

Funding Your Passion

For over 25 years, The Gig Harbor Rotary Foundation and the Rotary Club of Gig Harbor have been doing that. Your contributions make a difference by supporting our scholastic and charitable good works.

MAKING A DIFFERENCE

Support the Rotary Club of Gig Harbor and the GHRF to bring people and resources together to address pressing challenges and promising opportunities.

SHARING SUCCESS

Our mutual experience, collaboration and interest in the areas of education, community, vocational, youth and international projects will make for a better world and ensure our mutual success and satisfaction.

LEAVING A LEGACY

Your gift can be a contribution, a bequest, or an endowment to the fund of your choice. Because we are a volunteer organization, over 95% of your donation goes to scholarships and project funding.

Gig Harbor Rotary Foundation Funds

Education Funds

Mildred E. McColl Scholarship Fund – Provides Secondary Education Scholarships
Natucci Scholarship Fund – Education Endowment
General Education Funds
Morris Family Foundation

Avenues of Service Funds

Funding for Community, Vocational, and Youth Projects

Women's Prison Program & Scholarship Fund

Reentry training/support and scholarships for inmates being released from Washington Correction Center for Women (Purdy Prison).

Endowment Fund

Supports projects and services provided by the Rotary Club of Gig Harbor.

Olson International Fund

Improving the life and health of those living in countries outside of the United States.

The Gig Harbor Rotary Foundation