Sunnen Foundation

The Sunnen Foundation a Missouri charitable foundation established by machinery manufacturer Joseph Sunnen in 1953. It is now managed by a board of trustees made up of Sunnen family members and company employees.

The foundation has a planned parenthood agenda yet with strong dissident Catholic links. It gives a $75,000-$100,000 pa grant to Catholics for a Free Choice to fund their 'Abortion in Good Faith' series and it supports the  Missouri Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. It is involved in the distribution of contraceptives, and the Sunnen Foundation, funded the Roe vs Wade battle.

In 1980 the Sunnen Foundation was one of the funders of the National Center for Legislative Research, a Republican front group set up and run by Paul G. Dietrich, who also ran the Fund for a Conservative Majority on behalf of the Reagan presidential campaign. He later ran various other lobbying projects with United Nations (particularly WHO) affiliations for the Tobacco Institute which may explain the connection. Catholics for a Free Choice is an accredited Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) at the United Nations.