Supporting Peninsula Area Parks

Parks have the power to change lives—they are valuable community assets that provide essential places for recreation and organized sports, concerts and other community events, and sanctuaries for quiet relaxation and the preservation and enjoyment of nature—they enhance the quality of life in our communities daily.

You can play an important part in helping PenMet Foundation to acquire lands and maintain existing parks and green places vital to our growing communities. No matter how big or how small, each donation is important. Your donation will help ensure that parks and green spaces across the peninsula will be quality spaces for all people to enjoy - both today and into the future.

PenMet Foundation is a 501(c)3 organization, and your contribution is tax-deductible. Our Annual Report will also recognize you for your donation. Click here for a copy of our IRS determination letter.

Donate online
Giving is easy—secure online donation services are made possible by Click & Pledge.

Make A Donation Online

Donate by Mail
To download and print a membership donation form click here. Print, fill out, include your contribution check made payable to PenMet Foundation, and mail to:

PenMet Foundation
P.O. Box 2778
Gig Harbor, WA 98335

Employee Matching Gift Programs
Many corporations match the donations made by their employees to nonprofit organizations, enhancing the power and reach of these gifts.

To see if your company participates in a matching gift program click here to check the Case Matching Gifts Clearinghouse search engine to see if your company will match your donation or ask your company’s human resources department. If they do, simply submit the form they give you to PenMet Foundation along with your contribution and we’ll do the rest.

Honorary/Memorial Gifts
A gift in memory or in honor of a relative or friend is a generous and thoughtful way to recognize a person's life and accomplishments; commemorate a birthday, wedding, anniversary, or graduation. The Foundation will send a letter to the honoree or family notifying them of your gift. click here to make your honorary or memorial gift.

Giving can also include:

Gifts of Assets
Gifts of long-term appreciated stock, mutual funds or bonds offer an easy and tax-efficient way to make a significant contribution to the Foundation. These gifts not only provide you with charitable deductions, but may also offer additional tax savings through capital gains tax savings.

Gifts by Will
Through various types of bequests to PenMet Foundation (e.g. a specific sum of money, a percentage of your estate, personal property, real estate, etc.), you may secure an estate-tax charitable deduction for the value of the gift. The best part is that you will know your generosity will help support the Foundation’s mission for many years to come.

Life-Income Gifts
Do you want to support parks and green spaces in our area, but worry about having adequate income for yourself and your loved ones? Life-income gifts (e.g. charitable remainder trusts, gift annuities, and pooled income funds), can provide an income stream, significant tax savings, and great personal satisfaction in knowing that you have supplied vital long-term resources to sustain area parks.

Gifts of Life Insurance
Existing or paid-up whole and universal life insurance policies, and newly issued whole and universal life insurance policies are examples of life insurance policies typically donated to charitable organizations as PenMet Foundation.

Bank, Brokerage and Other Accounts
You can also pass an asset directly to PenMet Foundation after your lifetime by naming the Foundation as the beneficiary of an account (such as a bank or brokerage account or a certificate of deposit).

This Page was last updated on 07/18/2007