# Reliance Standards for Making Good Faith Determinations
> **IRS** · Final regulations. · Published 2015-09-25 · Effective 2015-09-25 · 80 FR 57709
## Document
- **Document number:** 2015-24346
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** IRS
- **Federal Register citation:** 80 FR 57709
- **CFR reference:** 26 CFR 53
- **Publication date:** 2015-09-25
- **Effective date:** 2015-09-25
- **Treasury docket:** TD 9740
## Abstract

This document contains final regulations regarding the standards for making a good faith determination that a foreign organization is a charitable organization that is not a private foundation, so that grants made to that foreign organization may be qualifying distributions and not taxable expenditures. The regulations also make additional changes to conform the final regulations to statutory amendments made by the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 and the Pension Protection Act of 2006. The regulations will affect private foundations seeking to make good faith determinations.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/09/25/2015-24346/reliance-standards-for-making-good-faith-determinations)
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