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by James A. Miller
Rounding out the top 10 foundations which through the years have
given the most money to the so-called Catholics For a Free Choice are
Packard ($445, 000), General Service ($336,700), Public Welfare
($298,000), Huber ($275, 000), and Scherman ($240,000).[1]
The David & Lucile Packard Foundation Address: 300 Second Street,
Suite 200, Los Altos, CA 94022. Phone: 415/948-7658.
The Packard Foundation was started in 1964 by David Packard,
co-founder of the Hewlett-Packard Company, and his wife, the late
Lucile Salter Packard. Hewlett- Packard Company, the cash cow for the
Packard Foundation and the source of the enormous fortunes of the
Hewlett and Packard families, was begun in 1938 by William Hewlett
and David Packard with just $538 in capital. One of the greatest
success stories in American business annals, Hewlett-Packard first
achieved fame in 1939 with the development of the audio oscillator,
several of which were sold to the Walt Disney Studios for use in the
soundtrack production of <Fantasia.>[2]
Hewlett-Packard's 1994 revenues were some $25 billion on which its
after tax earnings were approximately $1.8 billion.[3] In the third
week of March the company's stock was trading on the New York Stock
Exchange (symbol HWP) at an all-time high of $125 per share and a
2-for-1 stock split was underway. HWP is an acknowledged leader in a
wide variety of computer products, including the HP 3000 series of
business computers, the 9000 line of technical computers, the HP
Vectra series of PC's, and the HP LaserJet and DeskJet printers.
The Packard Foundation, headed by founder David Packard, had assets
of almost $1.3 billion at the end of 1993.[4] This amount was more
than five times greater than the $227 million of 1990, a result of
David Packard's 1990-1993 gifts to the foundation of more than $700
million in HWP stock[5] and improved stock market prices. Further
donations by Mr. Packard of HWP stock to the foundation have already
been committed.
Besides its long-time support of Catholics for a Free Choice, the
Packard Foundation has been an enthusiastic supporter of world
population control measures. In 1993, the latest year available, the
Packard Foundation made grants of at least $2,135,487 for such
activities, including more than $316,000 to no less than <eight>
different Planned Parenthood affiliates. Additionally, that same
year, the foundation gave $20,000 to the Rockfeller-allied Population
Council to "prepare and plan for the introduction of RU486 in the
United States," $80,000 to Ms. Kissling's old outfit of abortionists,
the National Abortion Federation, and $75,000 to the National
Abortion Rights Action League, a notorious group of propagandists.
More than $921,000- more than 43 percent of the Packard Foundation's
1993 expenditures for population control-was funneled into Mexico
($594,990), Columbia ($226,758), the two countries jointly ($40,000),
and into a U.S. "Hispanic" project ($60,000), to promote abortion,
sterilization and contraception of Latinos.[6]
Packard Foundation Trustees:
David Packard, the chairman of the board of trustees, is also the
chairman of the board of the Hewlett-Packard Company. Readers might
inform Mr. Packard of their disgust for his promotion of
anti-Catholic bigotry, abortion, and population control. Better yet,
tell Mr. Packard why you will no longer buy Hewlett-Packard products.
Mr. Packard can be reached at Hewlett-Packard Corp., 3000 Hanover
Street, Palo Alto, CA 94304 (415/857-1501).
David Woodley Packard, Mr. Packard's son, is the chairman and
president of Ibycus Corporation which manufactures Greek-English
translation machines, a director of Hewlett Packard Corp., and the
owner of the Stanford Theater at 221 University Avenue, Palto Alto,
CA 94301, a repertory house featuring old film classics. A spokesman
at the theater indicated that Mr. Packard was "very active" in the
running of the theater and had an office there.
California residents in the Palto Alto area might wish to protest and
picket at both Hewlett-Packard's headquarters and the Stanford
Theater. There's nothing like a good picket line out front to get the
Packards'-and the media's-attention.
David Packard's daughters, Nancy Ann Packard Burnett, Susan Packard
Orr, and Julie Elizabeth Packard, all serve on the Foundation board
and may be contacted there.
Robin Chandler Duke, wife of retired U.S. State Department diplomat
Angier Biddle Duke, has had a long involvement with abortion and
population control groups. Mrs. Duke has been a director of Planned
Parenthood's Alan Guttmacher Institute and is currently a board
member and "national chair" of Population Action International,
formerly known as the Population Crisis Committee. She may be reached
at home, 435 East 52nd. Street, New York, NY 10022; phone:
212/759-9146.
Robert J. Glasser, MD, a foundation trustee since 1984, is in active
practice at 525 Middlefield Road, Suite 130, Menlo Park, CA 94025;
office phone: 415/323-6700. home phone: 415/328-5869.
Dean O. Morton has been with Hewlett-Packard since 1960 and may be
reached at his office there (415/857-3659).
General Service Foundation
Address: 411 E. Main Street, Suite 205, Aspen, CO 81611. Phone:
303/920-6834; FAX: 303/920-4578.
Originally established in 1946 in Illinois with a $5.675 million
endowment from Clifton and Margaret Musser, the foundation is still
quite small with current assets of some $40 million. Beginning in
1970, world population control became-and has remained-a major
concern of GSF. A 1981 foundation publication, covering the first 35
years of operation, disclosed that GSF had "worked closely over
twenty years with...Planned Parenthood, American Friends Service
Committee, Population Council, Population Crisis Committee, Columbia
University, and others" to cope with the "awesome... consequences of
unrestricted population growth."[7]
In 1979 and 1980, GSF made population control its main area of
concentration, with "up to two-thirds of the Foundation's income"
during that period designated for such activity. Accordingly, "a
major contribution [was made] to the Population Council in support of
its [population programs] in Latin America and the Caribbean, with
emphasis on Mexico." Thanks to GSF funding, the Population Council
was able to expand "similar activities . . . [in] Brazil, Columbia,
the Dominican Republic, Peru, and El Salvador."[8]
In recent years, GSF has funded the notorious International Projects
Assistance Services of Carriboro, North Carolina, a manufacturer of
manual vacuum aspiration abortion machines, in placing its devices
and training physicians in their use, in Ecuador (1988 and 1990,
$25,000 each year), Nicaragua (1989, $28,000, 1990 and 1991, $20, 000
each year), and Mexico (1992-93, $40,000). GSF's most recent grant to
Catholics for a Free Choice, was a two-year $90,000 award in 1993.[9]
General Service Foundation Directors
One of the most disgraceful episodes involving foundation funding of
CFFC revolves around the presence for many years of one James Patrick
Shannon on the Board of Directors of the General Service Foundation.
Mr. Shannon, a de-frocked Roman Catholic priest, was formerly an
auxiliary bishop (1965-68) of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul, MN!
Leaving the priesthood, Mr. Shannon married outside the Church in
1969.
Mr. Shannon retired from the GSF board in 1994 and is currently
practicing law at 250 Central Ave North, Wayzata, MN 55391
(612/473-2751).
Most of GSF's directors and of are descendants of the founding
donors, or their spouses. They include Marion M. Lloyd, the Mussers'
daughter, and her daughter Mary Lloyd Estrin and Mrs. Estrin's
spouse, Robert L. Estrin, as well as Elizabeth, Marcie and Robert
Musser. All may be reached care of the foundation.
Public Welfare Foundation
Address: 2600 Virginia Avenue NW, Suite 505, Washington, DC
200371977. Phone: 202/965-1800.
The Public Welfare Foundation was established in 1947 by newspaper
publisher Charles Edward Marsh, who endowed the foundation with the
donation of three Southern dailies: <The Spartansburg Herald &
Journal>, <The Tuscaloosa News>, and <The Gladsden Times>. In 1985,
the sale of the three papers to <The New York Times> resulted in a
substantial increase in the foundation's assets, which exceeded $300
million in late 1993.[10]
In the fiscal year ending 31 October 1993, besides an $80,000 grant
to Catholics for a Free Choice, PWF liberally funded 15 different
Planned Parenthood abortion and population programs run by a dozen
different Planned Parenthood affiliates. Altogether, at least
$636,500 was turned over to Planned Parenthood. Grants totaling
$95,000 were given to two Planned Parenthood affiliates in Texas,
while three in North Carolina received $90,000. Other U.S. affiliates
receiving funds were located in Washington DC ($75,000), Tennessee
($28,000), and Arizona ($75,000). Through Planned Parenthood
affiliates in New York City and London, PWF funded Planned Parenthood
activities in Upper Guinea ($50,000), Colombia ($50,000), Mexico
($41,500), Thailand ($35,000), Bangladesh ($27,000), and Vietnam
($25,000). Another Planned Parenthood operation in Eritera received a
$45,000 grant funneled through the Unitarian Universalist Service
Committee of Cambridge, Massachusetts.[11]
In fiscal 1993, PWF gave grants totaling $370,000 to the Washington
DC-based Population Services International to distribute condoms in
the United States ($100,000), Benin and Central African Republic
($80,000 each), Zaire ($60,000) and Rwanda ($50,000).[12] Readers
will note that while Rwanda was in the midst of a savage civil war
and severe famine, Public Welfare Foundation and Planned Parenthood
helped to alleviate the situation with gifts of condoms!
International Projects Assistance Service of North Carolina was given
$75,000 to send its abortion machines to Eastern and Southern Africa,
while the Grupo de Informacion en Reproduccion Elegida in Mexico City
received $62,500 to agitate for abortion. Altogether, nearly
$3,000,000 was given by PWF in 1993 for the promotion of abortion,
sterilization and population control.[13]
A surprising discovery among the PWF grantees was the award in 1992
of $100,000 to the Flowers with Care program of the Diocese of
Brooklyn.[14] Flowers with Care, based in Queens, NY, runs an
educational and job training program for disadvantaged youth. The
program appears to be a worthwhile one.
Public Welfare Foundation Directors:
Peter Edelman, an attorney and husband of Children's Defense Fund
President Marian Wright Edelman, is currently on leave of absence
from Georgetown University School of Law. Mr. Edelman now heads the
"Counselor's Office" to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary
Donna Shalala, and may be reached at HHS, 200 Independence Avenue,
SW, Room 615-5, Washington, DC 20201, (202/690-8157). Mr. Edleman
resides at 3208 Newark Street NW, Washington, DC 20008,
(202/244-9004).
Readers might inquire of Mr. Edelman, a noted civil rights champion
and liberal Democrat, how anti-Catholic bigotry and the promotion of
abortion fit in with his professed concerns and those of his wife, a
noted professional protector of children's rights-after they're born,
that is.
Donald T. Warner is the chairman of PWF and may be reached there.
Thomas J. Scanlon, vice-chairman of the board, is also the head of
Benchmarks Inc., an international and domestic consulting firm
located at 3248 Prospect Street NW, Washington DC, (202/965-3983).
Mr. Scanlon resides at 5002 Worthington Drive, Bethesda, MD 20816,
(301/229-4663 and 229-8718). A secretary at Benchmarks volunteered
that Mr. Scanlon "is a Catholic."!
Robert R. Nathan is an economic consultant and president of his firm
Nathan Associates, Inc., 2101 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22201,
(703/516-7700)
Other directors include treasurer Veronica T. Keating, Jerome W.
Stokes, Antoinette and Robert Haskell, Myrtis H. Powell, C. Elizabeth
Warner and Thomas W. Scoville, all of whom may be reached at the
foundation's office.
Huber Foundation
Address: P. O. Box 277, Rumson, NJ 07760 Phone: 908/872-2322
The extremely secretive Huber Foundation was established in 1949 by
members of the Huber family, owners of the $1.2 billion dollar J. M.
Huber Corporation. The privately- held corporation, a manufacturer of
printing inks, carbon black, and various chemicals and resins, is
located at 333 Thornall Street, Edison NJ 08818, (908/549-8600).[15]
According to a local New Jersey paper, some 15 years ago the Huber
Foundation "stepped into the spotlight . . . to announce that all
future grants would promote 'reproductive freedom.'" The foundation
then "slipped back into the obscurity that had shrouded it since its
creation ...." The article reported that "[m]embers of the Huber
family are wary about discussing the philanthropy" and ignored
"repeated calls to the foundation."[16] Indeed, so secretive is the
foundation, that its official annual reports simply list the
organizations receiving Huber grants, without disclosing the amounts
each was awarded. A review of the foundation's Internal Revenue 990
Tax Form was required to ascertain that information.
True to its earlier declaration, the foundation's annual report
states that the Huber Foundation "focuses its grant-making on the
issues of Reproductive Health, Population Education and Family
Planning. Only organizations that make a substantial commitment of
time and resources to these issues will be considered for funding."
Accordingly, in 1992, the latest year available, a total of
$1,455,600 went to the likes of Catholics for a Free Choice
($40,000), the Alan Guttmacher Institute ($85,000), the Association
for Voluntary Sterilization ($40,000), the National Abortion
Federation ($42,000), the National Abortion Rights Action League
($60,000), Planned Parenthood Federation of America and six Planned
Parenthood affiliates ($384,000), the Population Crisis Committee
($25,000), the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights ($20,000, and
Zero Population Growth ($30,000).[17]
Huber Foundation Trustees
Hans A. Huber, the president of Huber Foundation, resides at 4 Tennis
Court Lane, Rumson, NJ 07760, (908/842-6794).
Michael W. Huber, secretary of the foundation, is the chairman of the
board of the J. M. Huber Corporation. He may be reached there or at
his home, 794 Navesink River Road, Locust, NJ 07760, (908/291-0327).
David G. Huber, vice-president of the foundation, has an unlisted
home phone but may be contacted at the Huber Foundation.
Other trustees, Lorraine Barnhart, assistant secretary of the
foundation, Christopher W. Seely, and Catherine Weiss, may all be
contacted care of the Huber Foundation.
Scherman Foundation
Address: 16 East 52nd Street, Suite 601, New York, NY 10022. Phone:
212/832-3086.
The Scherrnan Foundation was established in 1941 by Harry Scherrnan,
inventer of the Book-of-the-Month Club.
Book Club stock to Time, Inc. in 1977, assets substantially increased
and today total about $80 million. "Family planning" is one of the
"main interests of the Scherman Foundation."[18]
In 1993, the last year available, among the population control and
abortion outfits funded by the Scherman Foundation were the American
Civil Liberties Union "reproductive freedom project," i.e. abortion
on demand ($50,000), the Association for Voluntary Sterilization
($75,000), International Projects Assistance Services ($75,000),
Planned Parenthood of New York City ($100,000), Population Action
International ($90,000), and the Religious Coalition for Abortion
Rights ($45,000). No grant was given that year to CFFC since it had
previously received a two-year award of $50,000 in 1992.[19]
As in the case of the Public Welfare Foundation (above), the Schennan
Foundation has also funneled monies through a Catholic entity for
distribution to the Flowers with Care organization of Queens, NY. In
1988 $25,000 was awarded; this time the funds were channeled through
the U.S. Catholic Conference! In 1992 a two-year $30,000 grant was
given to Flowers with Care, again via the U.S. Catholic
Conference.[20] What in heavens name is going on here?
Scherman Foundation Directors
Scherman son-in-law Axel G. Rosin is the chairman of the Scherman
Foundation and his wife, Katherine S. Rosin, daughter of the founder,
is the foundation's secretary.
Karen R. Sollins is the president of the foundation while Sandra
Silverman is the executive director.
Other directors include Hillary Brown, Anthony M. Schulte and Marcia
T. Thompson. All of the above may be contacted care of the
foundation.
ENDNOTES
1 For the complete list of the 36 known foundations which have funded
CFFC, and the amounts they have given, see <HLI Reports>, February
1995, pp. 8, 10-15.
2 Fucini & Fucini, <Entrepreneurs>, G. K. Hall, Boston, 1985, p. 206.
3 Standard & Poor's Stock Report #1137, 1227-94.
4 Packard Foundation 1993 Annual Report, p. 74.
5 <1995 Taft Foundation Reporter>, p. 1043; Packard Foundation 1993
Annual Report, p. 79.
6 Packard Foundation 1993 Annual Report. pp. 24, 30-1, 59, 66, 70.
7 Foundation booklet, <General Service Foundation 1946 to 1981>, pp.
2, 6.
8 <Ibid>, pp. 10-11.
9 <Taft Foundation Reporter> (TFR), 1990, p. 238; <TFR> 1992, p. 305;
General Service Foundation Annual Reports, 1989 (p. 10), 1990 (p.
11), 1991 (p. 11), and 1992/1 93 (unnumbered).
10 Public Welfare Foundation Annual Report 1992-1993, p. 3; <Taft
Foundation Reporter>, 1995, p. 1100.
11 Foundation Annual Report 1992-93, pp. 38-9.
12 <Ibid>, p. 41.
13 <Ibid.> pp. 38-41.
14 <The Foundation 1000>, 1994/1995, p. 2109.
15 <Ward's Business Directory>, 1992, Information Access Company,
Belmont, CA, p. 2061.
16 <The Record>, Hackensack, NJ, February 10, 1991.
17 <Taft Foundation Reporter>, 1995, p. 639.
18 Scherrnan Foundation 1993 Annual Report, pp. 3-4.
19 <Ibid>, pp. 12-13
20 <The Foundation 1000>, 1993/1994, p. 2335; Foundation Annual
Reports, 1993 and 1992.
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