Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have donated $26 million to charities, a rep announced, prior to their wedding.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have donated $26 million to at least 20 charities this week, a representative announced, in advance of a wedding reported to be taking place this weekend in New York.
The pair have still not officially acknowledged that nuptials are about to take place, and even the announcement of the charitable efforts does not mention the wedding, though it’s clear that the donations are part of this week’s celebrating.
The 20 charities include a number of food banks in different cities, educational programs and children’s hospitals or medical programs.
The announcement simply says, “This week, Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift donated $26 million to charities across the United States. They include the following…”
The list of 20 is as follows:
City Harvest, New York City
Food Bank for NYC
New York Cares
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank
Harvesters – The Community Food Network, Kansas City, MO
The Store, Nashville, TN
Helping Harvest, Reading, PA
Rhode Island Community Food Bank
Feeding America, National
ASPCA, National
Dolly Parton”s Imagination Library, National
Grammy In The Schools, National
Education Through Music, New York, NY
Answer The Call, New York, NY
Musical Mentors, New York, NY
After-School All- Stars, New York, NY
After-School All-Stars, Cleveland, OH
MSK Kids, the pediatric cancer program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Children & Teen and Adolescents & Young Adult (AYA) Programs, Hassenfeld Children’s Hosipal at NYU Langone
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"May I just take this moment to express my deep appreciation to all the songwriters in the room for their individual achievements and congratulate all of the inductees here tonight? As a director, I am acutely aware of the power that music can have on audiences, and as much as I believe that the stories we tell as filmmakers have the potential to entertain and engage, there is something undeniable about how songs imprint on our souls. They leave a mark, and they provide a map. They provide a map to those moments in our lives that allow us, allow all of us to remember ourselves. And now, more than ever, what you do matters to people. Music will always be a uniting force, whether it’s sung in our cars at the top of our lungs, or at houses of worship, or at football games, or on the streets of Minnesota.
I am honored to be here tonight to introduce the youngest female ever to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, a woman who has no peer when it comes to shattering records as a writer, singer, and storyteller, a singular artist, and a genuine phenomenon whose place in our culture rivals that of the composers of the American Songbook, Lennon and McCartney of the 60s, and the singer-songwriters of the 1970s, like Carole King and Stevie let’s go (K)Nicks, and your namesake, James Taylor. Her iconic success is fueled by her innate gifts, and the unwavering support of her family. Her fearless determination to stand up for all artists’ rights is a reflection of her deep understanding of how best to use the meteoric fame that she has been navigating since she was just a teenager. And tonight, she is making history, and we get to witness yet another milestone, as Taylor Swift continues to fulfill her destiny as the most successful female artist of not just our time, but of all time.
What makes this evening so special is that this introduction is a reflection of how her peers in the music industry view her remarkable gifts as a songwriter, but also her dedication to collaboration, and her respect for her producers, cowriters, and other songwriters who have influenced her since she first picked up a 12-string guitar. Of course, most people start with six strings, isn’t that right? But to no one’s surprise, you were an overachiever at the age of 12. Everybody knows that. So, when I was first called, and Taylor first talked to me about coming here tonight, I admit I was flattered, and I was completely honored to accept, but about five minutes after I hung up, my elation faded slightly, because I mean, what could I possibly say about Taylor that has already been said? Just thinking about how much true, false, and plain crazy stuff has been written about you boggle the mind. So, just out of curiosity, I asked AI if it could tell me how many words have been written about Taylor Swift. And you know what? It couldn’t tell me. And I asked it how many words have been written by Taylor Swift, and it couldn’t tell me that either. And I just thought, ‘Wow, she is such a force that the depth of her achievements defy AI.’ And I should have known that something that starts with ‘artificial’ wouldn’t have a clue, because no algorithm can replace the soul of a true original who defies the status quo and easily refuses to be categorized.
Taylor is a beacon for those who refuse to let others define their narrative—someone who embraces artistic risk, and trusts us with her memories, grudges, thoughts, secrets, fears, and dreams. Through her songs, she has taken billions of people by the hand and by the heart, and reaches across the footlights to them with a message that is rooted in community, and infused with hope and relatability. Through her songs, she makes her believe we are in this together, and together, we can grow up, live, love, make mistakes, succeed, fail, and yet, continue to believe in our own self-worth. Her connection with her billions of fans is so impermeable, inspirational, and encompassing that it literally offers all of us a way to define true connection in a world that is clearly struggling with so many overwhelming challenges. Somehow, Taylor knows us all too well. I love making movies, I love making movies, but I don’t think I would ever fill stadiums of multigenerational fans who want to recite the dialogue from Indiana Jones. That’s just not going to happen. But when Taylor steps onto the stage, her words are sung back to her by a devoted audience that does not want to be anywhere else in the world in that moment. So tonight is a recognition that while she wrote You Belong With Me, in the most profound way, we belong to her. So thank you, Taylor, for the gift of your stories, and for insisting on being an authentic voice in a world where the line between real and fake is increasingly blurred. You are our mirror(ball), and tonight, to again steal from a great, great songwriter, Taylor, I just want you to know that this is me trying to tell everyone that in my book, you are evermore. So ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Songwriters Hall of Fame class of 2026 inductee, Taylor Swift."
— Steven Spielberg introducing and inducting Taylor Swift into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on June 11, 2026 (x)
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By crafting vivid chronicles of her life since she was a teenager, she has built a vast catalog that rewards the attention millions have pai
It was all there at the very beginning for Taylor Swift: romance, nostalgia and the occasional popping of shiny bubbles of emotion, all within the pristine economical package of a pop-country song. She was 16.
She has never stopped chasing that initial Nashville impulse — a four-ish-minute distillation of the biggest feelings imaginable, threaded through a melody that won’t leave you alone. Sometimes she brings country phrasings to electro-pop, or pop rigor to indie rock; she might let her rhymes and verses go shaggy or bring a bridge back like a chorus. Such are the perks of having mastered the form early, while amassing the cultural capital to remake pop in her image.
Pop stars are not supposed to last this long or create this much. The Beatles’ entire creative output happened, essentially, in eight years. But Swift’s durability — 12 studio albums and hundreds of songs over two decades — has given us an unprecedented combination of musical auteurism and commercial success.
Her later work often explores the tension between the two. She has a campy kiss-off register for tart bon mots — “Lights, camera, bitch, smile / Even when you wanna die,” she chirps on the fake-bubbly “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart.” But on the dream-pop opus “Mirrorball,” it’s all earnest reflection from the top of the mountain: “I can change everything about me to fit in.”
Swift’s latest run of dominance, the stretch that has given her two more Grammys for album of the year (and four in total, a record), began with that surprise pandemic one-two flutter of “Folklore” and its sister album “Evermore.” Simultaneously, Swift was painstakingly recreating four of her earlier albums to own them outright. Collective fervor around the “Taylor’s Version” albums sent a 10-minute director’s cut rendition of a nearly decade-old breakup ballad, “All Too Well,” to No. 1 on the Billboard chart in 2021, simply because so many listeners wanted to hear even more of a track that made them feel bruised, abandoned and devastated.
Swift has done as much as anyone in modern popular music history to advance the idea of the song — its construction and impact, its tensions and limitations — as an important art form. But she has also done it while foregrounding the agency and emotional lives of young women, and as a result has become probably the most pored-over writer — or at least up there with J.K. Rowling and the pope — of the 21st century in any medium. — Joe Coscarelli
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