Taylor Swift: Donations Masterpost
(Obviously there are many more that don't receive media attention)
Other masterposts: Here, here, and here!
Raising money for AIDS awareness in Africa
$75,000 to her high school to update the sound and lighting systems in the auditorium
Performed at bushfire relief concert
Initially donated $500,000 for flood relief and later some $100,000 was redirected to rebuild a playground in her hometown
Participated in the Hope for Haiti telethon
Donates 6000 books to Pennsylvania library
$25,000 to children's cancer research
Benefit concert raises $750,000 for tornado victims
$250,000 for more tornado relief
"She personally donated $1 million to to charities in the past year alone"
$4 million to Country Music Hall of Fame for music education
$10,000 and concert tickets to a Boston school for the deaf after a cruel internet prank
$50,000 to NYC Department of Education
140,000 books to Nashville Library
Befriends Maya, a mother of young boy who passed away from cancer, writes song about him and credits Maya as a co-writer so she receives royalties. Performs Ronan at Stand Up To Cancer event.
Wins an award for her charity work
Tops a Most Charitable Celebrity list
$100,000 to Nashville Symphony
2000 books to Reading Hospital Child Health Center
Handwrapped gifts to fans for Christmas
$500,000 to cancer treatment center for teens
All proceeds of Welcome to New York to New York City’s public schools
$100,000 to cancer research
600 boxes of merchandise to Toys for Tots
ALS Ice bucket challenge and donation
Raising money for young breast cancer survivors
Bought a house for a pregnant fan
$50,000 to a fan battling cancer
$50,000 to a backup dancer's nephew battling cancer
$15,000 to a firefighter called to a car crash where his own wife and son were seriously injured
All proceeds from Wildest Dreams music video to African Parks wildlife conservation
25,000 books to 25 schools through the Scholastic Possible Fund
GoFundMe raises their donation limit from $15,000 to $50,000 due to Taylor's donations
Ruby Rose speaks about Taylor's penchant for GoFundMe here
$1989 to fan's student loans
$250,000 to Kesha in her legal battle against Dr Luke
$1 million to flood relief
$5000 to family of fan who died in car crash
Donation to hospital that operated on Jamie King's baby
$10,000 for boy's therapy dog (then gave them backstage passes and front row seats to her tour a few yrs later)
$1989 to children's medical center fundraiser
$100,000 for cancer research
Foodbank donation for hurricane relief
Mariska Hartigay's foundation for helping sexual assault survivors
$15,000 to a fan whose mother was in a coma
Donates hundreds of concert tickets to police department who lost an officer
$10,000 to foster care (also peep who the cheque is in tandem with, invisible string is stringing!)
Another $10,000 for helping runaway, homeless, abused, and neglected at-risk youth
March for Our Lives campaign for gun reform
Time's Up legal defense fund for sexual assault survivors
RAINN for sexual assault survivors
$113,000 to Tennessee Equality Project
$10,000 to fan battling cancer
$4,000 to fan for college fees
Sampled a track recorded by students at the Regent Park School of Music (RPSM) and donated to the school
£23,000 to fan's education fees
Helps numerous fans dealing with job cuts/rent fees amid the pandemic (same article mentions her also donating to Feeding America and The World Health Organisation)
$13,000 to two mothers facing eviction
$1 million to tornado relief
Donated signed copies of folklore to record stores to help them stay afloat during the pandemic
Donated money to and paid 3 months healthcare costs for staff at Nashville music store Grimeys
$1300 to supplies fundraiser during BLM riots
Donation to Black in Fashion Council
$50,000 to woman who lost husband to COVID-19
Donated to several cat rescues
$197 million total in bonuses for her entire tour crew
$1 million to Tennessee Emergency Response Fund for tornado relief.
$13,000 to Stars Santa Claus Fund for Christmas gifts for underprivileged kids.
Donates to a foodbank in every city visited during the Eras Tour (some animal shelters too). Impossible to link to all. One said the donation covered a year's worth of meals. A neat breakdown of possible donation totals here, with a rough estimation of $10 million total donated just to foodbanks alone. Another good breakdown of the foodbanks she chose.
Attended Ramy Youssef stand-up, proceeds from the show were donated for humanitarian relief to people of Gaza
Donated concert tickets to Rare Impact Fund Benefit for youth mental health services
$5 million to hurricane relief
$100,000 to family of woman killed in Chiefs victory parade. Travis also donated $100,000.
$250,000 to Operation Breakthrough "a nonprofit providing programs and quality child care for children of the working poor"
$61,000 via donating Eras tickets to Patrick Mahomes fundraiser
Donated to ten charities during the LA wildfires
$100,000 to 2 year old battling cancer
Not Taylor directly, but the reissue of a shirt she wore from the Monterey Bay Aquarium saw fans raise 1.4 million for the Sea Otter program
Donated $1 million to Feeding America
Donated $1 million to the American Heart Association
Donated to ACM Lifting Lives - providing aid in times of need, health related initiatives
Donated to CMA Foundation
Donated to Operation Breakthrough
Donated to children's hospital
Donated to The Store Nashville, grocery support charity