Not many folks in Schuylkill County made the guest list for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s July 3 wedding at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

But they may feel the impact of the celebrity couple’s $26 million in charitable donations they gave to children’s hospitals, educational programs and food banks.

One of those donations was to Helping Harvest Food Bank in Reading, which distributes food to more than 300 programs in Berks and Schuylkill counties, including Tamaqua.

The regional food bank received a $1 million gift from the happy couple and posted a huge thank you on its social media page.

“We’re beyond grateful to announce a $1 million gift from Berks County’s own Taylor Swift and her fiancé, Travis Kelce, to help fight hunger,” the July 2 post read.

Swift grew up in Berks County, and the gift will help families put nutritious food on their tables in her hometown area as well as in Schuylkill County.

Helping Harvest distributes more than 11 million pounds of food to its food partners, such as food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, Mobile Markets, school programs and senior facilities, Jay Worrall, its president, said Monday.

The American Primitive Methodist Church Food Pantry on Hunter Street in Tamaqua is among the recipients and receives 14,000 pounds of food for its distributions each month, said Pastor Rick Clemson.

“We’re up to over 300 families on a pantry day, so we do it twice a month on the second and third Wednesdays,” he said.

This Wednesday, the pantry will be open from 10 a.m. to noon and 4 to 5:30 p.m. to serve the community, Clemson said. The distribution on the second Wednesday next month is from 2 to 5 p.m., he said.

Worrall hopes the $1 million donation will go to help the organization expand its reach.

“Helping Harvest, like all food banks, utilizes an infrastructure of food storage and transportation systems to rescue food that might otherwise be wasted and redirect that food to pantries, homeless shelters, soup kitchens and other food programs,” he said.

“This gift will enable us to expand that infrastructure, which in turn will allow us to continue to grow and provide more food to residents in Tamaqua, and throughout Schuylkill and Berks counties,” Worrall said.

Helping Harvest is on pace to distribute more than 14 million pounds of food in 2026, following a record of 11.1 million pounds set last year, he said.

Worrall said people could learn about how to support the fight against food insecurity, or to learn where to access food, by visiting the Helping Harvest website at www.helpingharvest.org.