Taylor Swift’s love for KC and its people showed in big and small ways recently
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- Kelce tied his 87 and Running Foundation to Operation Breakthrough; Swift gave $100,000.
- Swift handed $600 in cash to an Arrowhead worker after the Chiefs’ Christmas game shift.
- Swift donated $100,000 to GoFundMe for Union Station victim’s family after rally shooting.
Since starting his 87 and Running Foundation, Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce has made a point of helping the Kansas City non-profit Operation Breakthrough.
Kelce has made financial contributions, held fundraising events and brought kids to those affairs.
On his foundation’s website, Kelce wrote of Operation Breakthrough: “This place, this safe haven is for them to really dream big and really be anything they want to be. I see so much of myself and my friends growing up in these kids and this community, and I just want to make sure these kids have everything they could ever ask for.”
Kelce’s love of Operation Breakthrough made an impact on his fiancé, superstar singer Taylor Swift. She recently gave a financial gift to the non-profit.
Operation Breakthrough shared the news on its Instagram page and wrote: “Thank you @taylorswift for supporting Operation Breakthrough 💙 We are so grateful for your kindness and for championing creativity, education, and opportunity for our over 750 students!”
That’s just one way in which Swift has recently shown her love for Kansas City and the people who live here.
Following the Chiefs’ game on Christmas night, a worker at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium said she received $600 in cash from Swift.
Robyn Gentry shared in a Facebook post about the encounter.
“I was doing my end of season to do list, talking with my coworkers when security goes to walk through,” Gentry wrote. “First it was momma kelce, then it was Travis, and then Taylor. She was running around telling everyone merry Christmas and came towards me, saying thank you so much for working on Christmas, please take this, Merry Christmas. My mind just froze. Of course I said Merry Christmas and thank you so much. Travis and her were smiling so big and just kept saying merry Christmas, thank you for working Christmas but then they were gone and I stopped to look at what was in my hand.... $600. My whole paycheck for two weeks. I had just dropped that much for Christmas for 8 kids. I immediately started crying. So I came home and cant bring myself to spend it. So I framed one. Still havent spent any but I wanted to share the story with people who will appreciate it with me Taylor and Travis are beautifully kind people. Its very true, incredible and very kind people. Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday to me” Swift has been helping people in Kansas City since she began dating Kelce in 2023. Following the Super Bowl rally shooting at Union Station, she donated $100,000 to a GoFundMe set up for the family of Lisa Lopez-Galvan, who was killed on that awful day.
Days after her brush with Swift, Gentry was still buzzing about the singer’s generosity.
“My brain is melting my only hope is that Taylor sees it and knows how incredibly grateful I am,” Gentry wrote on Facebook. “Thats all I truly want from this she’ll never understand what that (meant) to me.”
This story was originally published January 2, 2026 at 11:00 AM.
