The Border Patrol Foundation (BPF) honors the memory of U.S. Border Patrol agents and provides resources to families of the fallen and agents seriously injured in the line of duty. On July 23, 2009, the Border Patrol Foundation was incorporated as a 501(c)3 non profit organization in Arizona. That evening, USBP Agent Robert Rosas was killed just north of the Mexico border near Campo, California, and his family was the first to receive assistance from the foundation. The development of the foundation began several years earlier—grown from the heart of then–USBP Deputy Chief Ron Colburn and his friend, Mike Conners. Both took the leadership in creating the vision of the foundation until Chief Colburn's retirement in 2009 when it became a reality.