Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have donated $26 million to at least 20 charities this week, ahead of their wedding extravaganza in New York City.
The superstar couple, both 36, are set to officially tie the knot at Madison Square Garden in NYC on July 3, with more than 1000 guests in attendance.
A smaller, more intimate rehearsal dinner for the couple’s closest 100 friends and family will be held at the Infosys Theater inside MSG on July 2 – and Swift’s longtime friends and collaborators have been spotted on the East Coast ahead of the wedding weekend.
The charities benefiting include nine foodbanks – including one in Swift’s hometown of Reading Pennsylvania – three children’s hospitals and seven educational programs.
The announcement from the pair’s representatives to The Daily Mail reads, ‘This week, Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift donated $26 million to charities across the United States. They include the following…’
The list of charities is; City Harvest New York City, Food Bank For NYC, New York Cares, Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, Harvesters – The Community Food Network, (Kansas City), The Store, (Nashville), Helping Harvest (Reading), Rhode Island Community Food Bank, Feeding America, ASPCA, Dolly Parton‘s Imagination Library, Grammy In The Schools, Education Through Music, Answer The Call, Musical Mentors, After-School All- Stars, After-School All-Stars, MSK Kids, the pediatric cancer program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Children & Teen and Adolescents & Young Adult (AYA) Programs, Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone and Children’s Mercy Hospital.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have donated $26 million to at least 20 charities this week, ahead of their wedding extravaganza in New York City – pictured 2025
The A-list couple got engaged in August 2025 after two years of dating
In the wake of the donations, The Store’s Instagram page shared a thank you post reading, ‘We’re incredibly grateful to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce for their transformative gift to The Store.
‘Their kindness will help more families across Middle Tennessee access fresh, healthy food with dignity and choice, and we’re honored to have their support.
‘Congratulations to Taylor and Travis on your upcoming wedding! Wishing you both a lifetime of happiness as you begin this next chapter together. Thank you for helping make a difference in the lives of our neighbors.’
Jilly Stephens, CEO of City Harvest said, ‘We are incredibly grateful for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s generous $1 million donation to City Harvest.
‘This donation is a love letter to New York, and a bold commitment to our efforts to ensure that no New Yorker goes hungry. Their support comes at a critical time, with visits to New York City soup kitchens and food pantries near record highs and expected to increase further in response to federal funding cuts.’
On Tuesday, the Daily Mail definitively confirmed that Swift’s wedding would be taking place in New York City after a key member of her entourage was spotted at the venue.
The wedding itself, initially expected to take place over the upcoming holiday weekend at Madison Square Garden, has now been nailed down as occurring on Friday, July 3.
The rehearsal dinner is said by a source to require ‘cocktail attire,’ and only family members have been invited for the pre-wedding event.
While it’s assumed that members of Swift’s squad – of which Hadid is a member – are likely to constitute her bridal party, few details have so far leaked about which of her friends will play a major part in her and Kelce’s wedding.
Ahead of the Mirrorball singer’s visit to her runway star friend, other close pals have been spotted congregating on the East Coast.
Her friend and mentee, 26-year-old Sabrina Carpenter, was spotted enjoying a meal at Emmett’s on Grove in the West Village on Tuesday evening.
A video posted to X showed the beaming songstress chatting with friends ahead of the wedding.
The charities benefiting include nine foodbanks – including one in Swift’s hometown of Reading Pennsylvania – three children’s hospitals and seven educational programs.- Above, the couple in March
In the wake of the donations, The Store’s Instagram page shared a thank you post reading, ‘We’re incredibly grateful to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce for their transformative gift to The Store
Swift and Kelce have allegedly dropped $160,000 for law enforcement presence at MSG on Thursday, July 2 and Friday, TMZ reported; taken on June 29
Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City holds a special place in the couple’s hearts – Swift visited just days after her The Eras tour wrapped in late 2024 – pictured with patient Baylee
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Carpenter was Swift’s opening act for 13 concerts on the 2023 Latin American leg of her blockbuster Eras Tour, before rejoining her the following year for a dozen shows split evenly between Australia and Singapore.
Two of Swift’s male pals were also spotted around New York State in recent days.
Her longtime friend and fellow singer–songwriter, Ed Sheeran, 35, was spotted enjoying the company of The National guitarist–turned–superstar record producer Aaron Dessner, 50, while in Upstate New York.
Dessner produced and co-wrote much of Swift’s Folklore and Evermore albums (both 2020), as well as bonus tracks on the deluxe 3am edition of 2022’s Midnights, before returning to work with her on much of The Tortured Poet’s Department (2024).
Sheeran and Dessner, who have previously worked together, were pictured dining at Buona Sera on the Lake in Malta, New York.
The restaurant is only about 60 miles from Dessner’s recording space, Long Pond Studio, where Swift and Sheeran have both worked with him.
In addition to Hadid, other stars believed to be on the guest list include her sister Bella, her boyfriend Bradley Cooper, Swift’s longtime BFF Selena Gomez, Emma Stone, Lena Dunham and Zoe Kravitz.
Kelce’s football coach, Andy Reid, has already confirmed he will be attending the couple’s nuptials.
Also expected to attend are Kelce’s brother, Jason Kelce, and his teammate Patrick Mahomes, who previously revealed that he was responsible for inviting Kelce to the fateful Eras Tour concert at which he tried – unsuccessfully – to give Swift a friendship bracelet that listed his phone number.
Swift and Kelce’s wedding guests have also been left in the dark about the exact ceremony location ahead of the couple’s anticipated nuptials.
A source claimed to Us Weekly last week that lucky guests who scored an invitation to the big day have not yet been informed of the specific location.
‘Taylor and Travis told guests to be in NYC. No other location was provided,’ the insider told the outlet.
Those who received an invite were told to be in NYC on Thursday and Friday with no other information being provided.
Swift and Kelce are ‘putting their guests on hold for a couple days,’ the source said, before claiming that they have spent ‘millions’ on the wedding.
The A-list couple is allegedly planning on hosting a smaller gathering at Madison Square Garden on July 2, followed by a larger affair with roughly 1,000 attendees the next night, per the New York Times .
Earlier this week on Monday, equipment was seen being delivered and unloaded into MSG in photos taken for the Daily Mail
And on Tuesday, more pictures shot for the Daily Mail captured forklifts and additional equipment at the venue
An insider informed the Daily Mail in early June that Swift and Kelce had embraced the idea of a ‘spectacle’ wedding and selected Madison Square Garden as the venue.
Sources also previously claimed to the Daily Mail that guests who received an invitation are being required to sign an NDA before receiving information about the wedding.
Those who RSVP are then sent a link to the agreement, which requires guests not to disclose information about the wedding.
In August, Kelce proposed to Swift, and she shared photos from the intimate engagement on Instagram with the caption: ‘Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.’
The Football star had turned his backyard in Kansas City into a secret garden wonderland, which offered a romantic atmosphere.
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