The star has handed over the entirety of his £25k Mercury Prize cash to the Music Venues Trust, which functions to save the Britain's grassroots live music spots.
The star was presented with the cheque on mid-October as his latest record People Watching was chosen as the top album of the previous year.
Fender has decided to give the cash to the MVT, in appreciation of the crucial part grassroots venues had in his beginning days.
"I couldn't be pursuing my current career if it hadn't been for all the shows I played around the region, and further afield, when I was starting out," stated Sam Fender. "These spaces are iconic, but they are struggling."
Beginning in 2023, at least 150 of these locations have ceased operations – roughly 16 percent of the total UK scene.
In the last year, well-known musicians including the band Pulp, the group Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the trust in its efforts to support the industry, by adding a small levy to their ticket costs, which benefits independent venues.
Fender also took part, raising over £100k on his live tour to help 38 grassroots venues across Britain.
The donation assisted spaces that were facing potential shutdown due to challenges stemming from water damage, fires and family tragedies, as well as licensing issues, court cases and noise complaints.
Other venues were granted financial assistance in modernizing facilities and sound and lighting systems that directly benefitted musicians and concertgoers.
"The notion that funds from concerts in large arenas supports the local stages, where it kicks off for performers like me, is just common sense," Sam Fender has stated.
He is among several artists to contribute his honor prize money to charitable organizations.
In Pulp won the prize in the year 1996 for their record Different Class, frontman Jarvis Cocker announced that the act would donate their cash to the charity War Child.
That year, artist Ms Dynamite shared her bounty between several organizations, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"Additionally, I gave a £1,000 to my local community centre, to their gymnastics class, because I did gymnastics when I was a child and they needed new equipment," she told the media.
In recent years, Ezra Collective gave their prize money to the local youth club that nurtured their group, in addition to other independent music bodies.
Additionally 1994 winners the group gave their prize to a MS organization after a close contact was identified with the illness.
"Winning was sufficient," stated vocalist the singer. "The money was the bonus but we could do without the extra, because we had the cake. So our victory touched somebody else's life."
Recently, the MVT revealed it had rescued several local spots in that region, by bringing them into community ownership.
One venue in Southampton and The Croft in that location were purchased under the community ownership program, which is backed by a national body and supporters who acquire "ownership units" in the buildings.