The star has given the complete sum of his £25,000 honor cash to the Music Venues Trust, which works to preserve the Britain's grassroots live music spots.
The star was presented with the cheque on mid-October as his latest record the album was named the best record of the previous year.
He has chosen to hand the money over to the trust, in acknowledgment of the crucial part grassroots venues played in his early career.
"As an artist couldn't be pursuing this success if it hadn't been for all the shows I played around the region, and elsewhere, when I was starting out," stated the artist. "These spaces are iconic, but they are in difficulty."
Since the start of 2023, more than 150 of these spaces have shut down – approximately 16% of the total UK scene.
Over the past year, top acts like Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Sheeran have all supported the Music Venues Trust in its initiatives to support the industry, by applying a modest fee to their ticket prices, which goes to help local stages.
Fender also took part, raising more than £100,000 on his recent tour to assist 38 local spots across the UK.
The donation assisted locations that were facing imminent closure due to difficulties caused by flooding, fire incidents and personal losses, as well as regulatory hurdles, conflicts and sound issues.
Other venues received financial assistance in improving amenities and gear that directly benefitted musicians and concertgoers.
"The concept that revenue from concerts in big venues backs the local stages, where it all starts for performers like me, is just sensible," Sam Fender has commented.
Fender is among several artists to give his Mercury Prize prize money to charitable organizations.
In they earned the trophy in the year 1996 for their record their work, frontman Cocker announced that the band would donate their winnings to the organization War Child.
That year, musician Ms Dynamite split her bounty across a few good causes, such as the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"I also gave a grand to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics program, because I trained in gymnastics when I was younger and they needed better apparatus," she told a publication.
In recent years, they donated their winnings to the youth organization that developed their group, alongside other grassroots music organisations.
Additionally 1994 winners the group donated their winnings to a multiple sclerosis charity after a acquaintance was found to have the condition.
"Winning was quite enough," stated artist Heather Small. "The cash was the extra but we didn't require the extra, because we had the honor. So our victory affected the lives of others."
Recently, the Music Venues Trust announced it had protected a couple of local spots in the South East, by bringing them into community ownership.
The first in that area and the other in the city were bought under the Own Our Venues scheme, which is funded by the arts council and supporters who purchase "stakes" in the venues.
