The Santa Ana Police Officers Widows & Orphans Fund, founded in 1978 to assist the families of officers that have suffered catastrophic needs, been injured, or killed in the line of duty. The S.A.P.O.A. Widows & Orphans Fund has helped those in their time of need not only here at the Santa Ana Police Department, but officers and their families across the county, state, and nation. This fund has also provided scholarship opportunities to those officers’ children. This fund is recognized as a Charitable Organization as defined in sec. 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code, Tax I.D. 33-0840920.