Isaiah, in pursuit to bring to pixilated life the plight of Sierra Leone natives at the height of the 18th-century slave trade, generously donated $25,000 donation to a West African computer-animation project through Gondobay Manga Foundation.

This act of his could be deemed even more generous in light of his salary situation at Grey's Anatomy. Considering that he was not among the group of castmembers who received major raises this month for uttering the homophobic slur heard round the world, he still made that extra effort to benefit the impoverished people of Sierra Leone, the country to which he recently traced back his ancestry.