The best kind of giving is doing something for someone and not bragging about it.
I don’t think he was bragging. He noted that he was following another person’s lead. I think he was just putting it out there in case someone else was able to do the same.
Even if you can’t go that big, there is always something little that you can do to make someone else’s day brighter. Sometimes people just need to be reminded that they can do something good.