Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce donate $26 million to charities before wedding

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce donated $26 million to 20 charities this week ahead of their wedding at Madison Square Garden, with nine recipients based in New York. The gifts were spread across groups tied to places where the couple has deep personal and professional connections, including New York, Kansas City, Rhode Island, Los Angeles, Nashville and Pennsylvania, and the amount assigned to each charity was not disclosed.

The New York recipients included Food Bank For NYC, City Harvest, New York Cares, Answer The Call, MSK Kids at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone and After-School All-Stars in New York. That concentration put hunger relief, children’s health and local youth programs at the center of a donation push that landed just miles from the couple’s expected wedding site.

Outside New York, the list also included Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, Harvesters – The Community Food Network in Kansas City, The Store in Nashville, Helping Harvest in Reading, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island Community Food Bank, Feeding America, ASPCA, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, Grammy In The Schools, Education Through Music, Musical Mentors, After-School All-Stars in Cleveland and Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City. The donations pointed to a mix of hunger, arts, education and health causes, with several grants aimed at communities where Swift and Kelce have built lasting ties.

The move follows Swift’s $1 million donation to Feeding America in December 2025. Wedding festivities were expected to draw more than 1,000 guests, with a smaller rehearsal dinner planned for Thursday night at the Infosys Theater under Madison Square Garden and the main event expected Friday, July 3, 2026.