DEJI OLUSANYA FOUNDATION

TIMELINE OF DEJI OLUSANYA FOUNDATION AS A  PUBLIC CHARITY

March 18, 2017: Form 990-N Annual filing for tax-exempt organization filed with IRS for tax year 2016.

March 7, 2017: DEJI OLUSANYA FOUNDATION received a letter from the Internal Revenue Service granting the Foundation exemption from Federal Income Tax under Internal Revenue Code IRC Section 501(c)(3). This means donors can deduct contributions made to the Foundation under IRC Section 170. The Foundation is also qualified to receive tax deductible bequests, devises, transfers or gifts under Sections 2055, 2106, or 2522. This exemption was backdated to August 23,2016, the day the Foundation was incorporated.

August 23, 2016 (effective date): DEJI OLUSANYA FOUNDATION recognized as a PUBLIC CHARITY under IRC SEction 170(b)(1)(A)(vi) by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.

August 23, 2016 (effective date): DEJI OLUSANYA FOUNDATION incorporated as a Non-profit Organization by Texas Secretary of State.

In line with our policy of transparency, and to reassure visitors to these website and our donors, the Deji Olusanya Foundation publishes on this page of its website the relevant sections of the state and federal codes that establish our tax exempt status as a non-profit organization. Further information can be obtained from: www.irs.gov/charities.

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RECENT CALENDAR OF EVENTS:

Saturday, August 15, 2020:

College Scholarship Award (made through Yoruba Cultural Center Dallas Scholarship Program) to Miss Olubunmi Kayode of Dallas to attend Texas State University San Marcos, TX

January 13, 2020: Remembrance of Deji's 8th birth annivesary

Saturday, September 30, 2017: Deji Olusanya Foundation Victims Fund Award in the amount of $2500 to the parents of Phabion Runnels, an 11 year old boy killed by an accidental gun discharge in his home in Dallas, TX on December 9, 2015.

 The Runnels family with check for $2500 with Directors, Wayne Valentine, Ernest Izendomwen, Dele OLusanya and Jeanine Mosley (photographed in Dallas, Saturday September 30, 2017)

Wed, Oct 26, 2016, 10 am-12 noon:  Lecture on "Reducing gun accidents in the home" by President, Deji Olusanya Foundation. Presented to Desoto Police & Clergy (DPAC) 714 E. Beltline, Desoto TX 75115.

Thursday Nov 24, 2016:  Deji Olusanya Foundation highighted during the service and in the magazine of the Redeemed Church of Christ, 1709 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Dallas, TX 75215. Pastor Raphael Adebayo.