Taylor Swift donates $1 million to Feeding America, group says

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CBS News

December 23, 2025 / 1:38 PM EST


Pop star Taylor Swift has donated $1 million to Feeding America just days before Christmas, the nonprofit said Tuesday. Feeding America CEO Claire Babineaux-Fontenot said the organization, which oversees a network of food banks, food pantries and local meal programs, was "incredibly grateful" for the gift.

"This holiday season, (Swift's) continued support is a powerful reminder of what is possible when we unite to end hunger," Babineaux-Fontenot said on Instagram. "When we join together alongside people facing hunger, we can make sure families have a full table this holiday season and beyond."

Swift has not publicly commented on the donation. Swift's team did not immediately respond to a request for comment from CBS News.

Roughly 14% of U.S. households reported being food insecure between January and October of 2025, Purdue University researchers recently found. Babineaux-Fontenot said during an appearance on CBS News' "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" last month that Feeding America has been seeing more demand than it can keep up with.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/taylor-swift-feeding-america-donation-christmas/

[Skittles]

1. not a fan but she seems like a truly decent person

yes indeed

[OC375]

2. Every bit helps!

Her 2025 tour did $2 billion gross, so I guess that's like me clearing $100k before taxes and donating $200!

[questionseverything]

4. She donates money constantly but with out fanfare

As a side note I was reading a ditty about how famous people tip and Taylor is very generous about tipping but jayz will run servers ragged and then not leave a dime as a tip

As an old waitress I have no use for non tipping peops

Here is one more,

Jennifer lopez and ben afflack have lunch, he leaves a hundred dollar bill on the table and she walked back, picked it up and laid down a five dollar bill

There’s a place in hell for people like that

[NotHardly]

6. So, ya can't get behind her contributions because she's female or you give better?

[Kali]

19. every bit DOES help

pretty sure the orgs appreciate all of it. gotta say even though I am a cynical old bitch, your attitude is pathetic.

sorry jury, just had it today with this kind of shit.

[EarthFirst]

49. You're shitting on the wrong billionaire... nt

[Princess Turandot]

3. She also just gave a $1 million to the American Heart Association, per their social media today..

Her father had quintuple bypass surgery earlier this year.

[Evolve Dammit]

5. Thank you Taylor!!!

[Cha]

7. Mahalo, Taylor Swift! And, all those

who have money and are Giving.. Not Taking.

TY

[FakeNoose]

8. Many of the foodbanks are run by churches and community volunteers, who deserve our support

This isn't a political announcement, I'm asking my fellow DUers to consider donating to foodbanks in our own communities.

We won't get the headlines like Taylor Swift does, but that's OK. We all live in communities that serve the poor and most of them are run by loving, giving neighbors. They used to think they could count on funding from the government, and now that's all falling apart. Even the blue states are having trouble keeping up.

Please support your local community foodbanks, because it's going to make a difference THIS YEAR. If you belong to a church please ask your church groups to help in any way they can, by donations, volunteering or whatever. So many Americans are desperately needing help, and the professional fundraising conglomerates aren't getting paid to care about the unfortunates this year.

[wolfie001]

15. I sent a donation to the Maryland Food Bank

And they sent me a handwritten XMAS/Holidays thank you!

[Sector 001]

9. Have any Republican celebrities donated money like this?

I haven't heard of any.

[Bengus81]

40. Hell...Trump would grift off of people donating to a food bank in his name

Just like he's doing on that fake ass Balls room.

[SamuelTheThird]

10. Billie Eilish just gave about 20% of her wealth to fight hunger

Swift is a billionaire, so color me unimpressed

[BumRushDaShow]

11. She is supposedly giving to a number of orgs but just doesn't grandstand on doing that like some.

[SamuelTheThird]

13. I think Eilish has the correct take here

We shouldn't have billionaires at all

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQcTZ-RAWsH/

And Swift's publicity team does let people know lol

[BumRushDaShow]

24. Like many on DU, I am old enough to be her mother

and I am not really a fan of her music (different generation).

However here was something that Billboard put together of some of her "known" contributions - A Timeline of Taylor Swift’s Generosity

I also know that her current fiance (Travis Kelce) has a brother Jason, who is a retired Philadelphia Eagle, who has been very active here in Philly (despite not being from here) for charity and he and former teammates (who are still on the team) - Jordan Mailata and Lane Johnson, have recorded annual Christmas albums for charity (I bought all of them so far) and this year included adorable stuffed dolls of themselves (and did a music video this year) -

(and yes that's the 3 of them singing)

This was the first year they did it (done in 2022) and was their "making of" video -

and last year's -

Fortunately there are many of these folks who ARE giving unlike douchebags like fucking Muskrat, who spends his time TAKING and HOARDING.

[questionseverything]

27. Eilish donated 11.5 million from her tour

So good for her

Taylor donated in every city they played in across Europe plus giving her people $198,000,000 in bonuses

Buying her masters back was huge but I guess you wouldn’t support that either

Nobody can please everyone

Haters gonna hate

[LuvLoogie]

32. ...hate, hate, hate, hate.

Taylor's gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake.

Shake it off Shake it off.

[questionseverything]

34. lol 😆

[SamuelTheThird]

52. I think it's obscene billionaires exist

It shows what a rotten system we have. If that makes me a hater, so be it. What does it make you though to defend an oligarchical set up?

[Bengus81]

41. Billionaires are fine with me UNTIL they control the media,food chains,Internet,trash hauling

etc...etc... all for their fucking greed. I really doubt Swift being a billionaire has affected your wallet has it?

[wolfie001]

14. Yes! She does a lot of "quiet good"

Absolutely zero reasons to bash her. I think she's a great human being with a heart of gold!

[SamuelTheThird]

16. She's reportedly worth 2 billion, billionaires shouldn't exist

And she pumps emissions into our atmosphere with her extensive private jet usage.

And she wrote a song attacking her fiance's black ex-gf, not a good look.

She's not the innocent do-gooder people like to make her out to be

Oh, and she didn't speak out when ICE was using her songs, unlike a whole bunch of other female artists

[wolfie001]

18. And they do exist

I like the billionaires that help people. You wanna just burn it all down and start over? People need to get more Democratic politicians in office to make things a bit better. Priztker is a nice billionaire. I'd like to see him in the WH. FDR was uber wealthy and he gave us Social Security. He welcomed the hate of the millionaires back then. Soros supports Democratic causes. That's why the BAD BILLIONAIRES attack him constantly.

[littlemissmartypants]

25. She's just barely worth a billion on paper.

Most of that is real estate and the masters of her music that she just recently regained ownership of plus she just worked her ass off touring.

She's not getting fat off of Government contracts, venture capitalism buyouts or living off of the backs of poor workers.

It's one thing to attack capitalism and another entirely to attack a person just because they have accumulated wealth as a result of years of work in a singular profession.

She's been working on her craft since she was a teen. If nothing else she deserves respect for her perseverance.

[littlemissmartypants]

26. Wow. I suspect I know where you're getting your news. ...

Twenty percent of that might be true but the other eighty is straight-up misinformation.

[SamuelTheThird]

31. here

https://carbonmarketwatch.org/2024/02/13/taylor-swift-and-the-top-polluters-department/

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/nov/15/taylor-swift-silence-trump-administration-speaks-volumes


Hardly right wing sources, as I think you're implying

[questionseverything]

35. Even good magazines publish jerky opinions occasionally

It happens

[SamuelTheThird]

46. Her plane emissions are not a matter of opinion

And her silence on Ice is factual

[questionseverything]

47. Funny thing, my grandkids were talking about all this

They aren’t huge swifties or anything but they were laughing their buns off at billie being such a hater…. Saying she must have ozempic brain or something lol

Does billie travel by covered wagon or what?

Ho ho ho

[SamuelTheThird]

51. Uh, Eilish was directly talking to people like Mark Zuckerburg who was at that event

I think it is a stamp of honor to not feel kindly about him. Maybe your family disagrees.

[littlemissmartypants]

36. Nope. Not implying that at all. But I know that many ...

Sources use her name as a buzz word for clicks. She's the flavor of the month for attracting attention to whatever's being hawked. Whether the sources support the headlines or not.

[Bengus81]

42. Do some checking on WHO can use someone's songs like Trump did

with the Rolling Stones for years and years. All they have to do is pay a fee and artists have no choice.

[SamuelTheThird]

45. Who said they have a choice?

But when ICE used the songs of other artists, those artists made strong public statements condemning it. Taylor didn't. Everything she does is calculated for her career.

[pfitz59]

22. get real!

she donated money to every foodbank on every stop of her tour. she also gave huge bonuses to all her employees. she is the right kind of 'billionaire'

[SamuelTheThird]

53. billionaires existing is a failure of the system

There are no 'right kinds' of billionaires except those who divest themselves of most of their wealth. But they shouldn't have to even do that. They should be taxed right out of the billionaire category so we can have systemic change, and not rely on the sops tossed to us by the mega wealthy.

[Kali]

23. another one

[Torchlight]

55. Given that she's done exponentially more than I ever have

...criticizing her would be less an indictment of her effort and more an exposure of my own sanctimony. But that's simply from my chair.

[Upthevibe]

12. BumRushDaShow............

She seems to have a heart of gold.

She also gave HUGE bonus' to the folks that work for her (some received $100,000).

[mwb970]

17. I'm sure trump made a similar contribution.

He's that kind of guy.

[popsdenver]

21. Yea, he probably gave a donation

to one of his own SCAM charities......

[GAJMac]

20. Sorry, but I have to disagree with the second paragraph

I really believe that it more follows the Biblical sentimant of "To whom much is given, much is expected". Whether Taylor Swift is or is not a follower of the modern Christialn bible, she seems to me to personify the idea of 'social responsibility" (something that is sadly missing from most of the "financial succesful" people in our society).

[OC375]

28. She's a Billionaire

When the $54 million private plane you bought seems totally appropriate to your station in life so as to barely raise eyebrows anymore,, and you just had a $2 billion run, and your husband's side gig ain't doing bad either, I just don't get a big jolt over so few zeros.

[LuvLoogie]

33. Okay

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[Wonder Why]

44. It was nice of her but you are right. Comparable to many of us peons giving $50 to charity.

[onenote]

30. Her publicly giving a million to Feeding America will generate thousands and thousands of additional donations

Her fan base not only will learn about Feeding America as a result of her donation but in all likelihood, will follow her lead albeit in a much smaller, but still important way.

[fujiyamasan]

37. Ummm good for her I guess

Her net worth is estimated to be $1.6 billion.

That’s 0.0625% of her net worth.

I’m not knocking her. That’s also better than say Elon musk would give any charity.

But tech companies also give very generous bonuses to their employees as well as stock options. Are we supposed to sing their praises too? Throw some scraps toward the masses, and people think you’re a saint.

Remember that when Trump puts his signature on his “tariff dividend”. The billionaires are taking us all for a ride.

[tavernier]

38. Ummm, good for you I guess

for letting us know how stingy she is, per your research.

Merry Christmas

[fujiyamasan]

39. Bah humbug it is

if I’m not really impressed when a billionaire throws the equivalent of scraps. This isn’t even about her. What she’s doing is good, but she’s still a billionaire and I fundamentally think a system is shit if it has to rely on the wealthy for people not to starve. That’s a failed society imo.

It’s about how this site selectively sings the praises of the ultra wealthy when they agree with our politics, yet often don’t question how fucked up our system is in the first place, when it enables this kind of accumulation of wealth.

Merry Christmas to you too.

[Bengus81]

43. No...I have a real problem with Billionaires when they fuck up MY life.

Like Eloon Musk,Trump and now the fucking Ellison's. The list goes on and on including the Walton spawn, the Kroger chain with a monopoly on fucking FOOD.

Taylor Swift is a go to her concerts and buy stuff or DON'T. The cost to me of her being a billionaire is ZERO.

[SamuelTheThird]

50. Billionaires DO affect you

Large wealth gaps are red flashing warning signs for the erosion of democracy. There's good research on this

[questionseverything]

48. But how is the system her fault?

My sil and daughter work local stage crew, they talk with the traveling crews on a regular basis and getting a 5 or 10 grand bonus for working an entire season would be considered huge

The inside industry joke is :

Now I lay me down to sleep

And I pray to

Wake up working for Taylor!

[flvegan]

54. Wow. This thread.

Someone donates $1 million (at least, that we know of, people) and here are DUers collectively shitting on it because it's somehow not enough. Really doesn't matter who it is or what their worth is.

It's a singular incident, maybe the first of many, maybe the last of a thousand. Fact is, it's a million bucks to feed people.

Those purity tests are a bitch I guess. Nah, just shut the fuck up.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

56. No good deed!