Taylor Swift has donated $250,000 (£200,000) to a children’s poverty charity in Kansas City, Missouri.
The pop megastar made the donation to Operation Breakthrough just days before Christmas (December 21), with the organisation sharing a video on social media to send their thanks to her.
Operation Breakthrough was founded in 1971 by Sister Corita Bussanmas and Sister Berta Sailer and strives to “provide a safe, loving and educational environment for children in poverty and to empower their families through advocacy, emergency aid and education.”
In a post on Instagram, a number of children thanked Swift personally, while the group wrote in a caption: “Thank you, @taylorswift, for making our holiday season shine even brighter! Your kindness and thoughtful 250K donation means the world to our children and families.”
Swift recently wrapped her all-conquering ‘Eras’ World Tour with the final show in Vancouver on December 8, the highest-grossing tour of 2024 – beating off competition from Coldplay, Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones, Madonna and more.
She then attended an ‘Eras’ tour-themed party thrown for her by her boyfriend and NFL star Travis Kelce, in which guests dressed as the different ‘Eras’ of her career.
Kelce wore the costume he donned on stage when he made a cameo appearance in her ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ set during one of her Wembley Stadium shows.
The tour ran for a combined total of 21 months across 149 shows, and broke the record for the highest-grossing tour of all time, bringing in a reported $2.2billion (£1.73b) in total.
Last December, at the tour’s midpoint, it became the first to gross $1billion (£796million). Prior to that, it was estimated that, once it had concluded, the tour would be the most lucrative in music history. In total, 10,168,008 people across the world attended the ‘Eras’ shows.
Elsewhere, it was revealed that a book about the ‘Eras’ tour sold more than 800,000 copies in its first weekend of release.
It’s been a record-breaking year for Swift, with her latest album ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ becoming the biggest of the year in the US, earning 4.66million equivalent album units in the first half of this year. It also became the first album by a woman to spend its first 12 weeks at the top of the Billboard 200 chart.
