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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce donate $26m to charities ahead of wedding

Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift attend the 2026 iHeartRadio Music Awards at Dolby Theatre on 26 March, 2026 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for iHeartRadio)

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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce - A representative for the pop star confirmed the couple had made the significant donation

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have donated $26 million (€22.7 million) to 20 charities ahead of their wedding.

A representative for the pop star confirmed the couple – who are set to marry at New York's Madison Square Garden on Friday night – had made the significant donation.

The 20 charities include nine food banks, an animal cruelty organisation, seven educational programmes, and three children's hospitals.

The announcement simply shared: "This week, Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift donated 26 million dollars to charities across the United States. They include the following…"

General views around Madison Square Garden on 2 July, 2026 in New York City. Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)
The couple are set to marry at Madison Square Garden on Friday night

The charities included City Harvest, Food Bank for NYC, New York Cares, Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, Harvesters – The Community Food Network, The Store, Helping Harvest, Rhode Island Community Food Bank, Feeding America, and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA).

The other recipients included Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, Grammy in the Schools, Education Through Music, Answer the Call, Musical Mentors, and After-School All-Stars in New York and Cleveland.

Also receiving donations were MSK Kids, which is the paediatric cancer programme at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, Hassenfeld Children's Hospital at NYU Langone, and Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri.

NFL star Kelce plays for the Kansas City Chiefs.

Although the size of the individual donations was not noted, City Harvest in New York issued a release that said it had received a "generous one million dollars donation" from the couple.

The Rhode Island Community Food Bank also said it was "incredibly grateful for their extraordinarily generous and unexpected gift".

Source: Press Association

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