The star has given the entirety of his £25k Mercury Prize cash to the Music Venues Trust, which works to protect the United Kingdom's grassroots concert spaces.
He was presented with the cheque on mid-October as his latest record his work was declared the outstanding release of the previous year.
Fender has chosen to give the cash to the MVT, in recognition of the crucial part small stages fulfilled in his early career.
"I would not have achieved what I am doing today if it hadn't been for all the gigs I did around the North East, and elsewhere, when I was starting out," said the artist. "These locations are iconic, but they are facing challenges."
Since the start of 2023, more than 150 of these locations have ceased operations – about one-sixth of the entire UK sector.
Over the past year, well-known musicians like Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the Music Venues Trust in its attempts to help venues survive, by applying a minor surcharge to their admission fees, which goes to help smaller concert halls.
Sam Fender also participated, generating more than £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to help thirty-eight small stages across England, Scotland, and Wales.
These funds assisted spaces that were confronting possible closure due to issues stemming from floods, fires and family tragedies, as well as licensing issues, legal disputes and sound issues.
Other venues obtained monetary aid in modernizing amenities and sound and lighting systems that directly benefitted musicians and fans.
"The idea that funds from performances in major spaces backs the local stages, where it kicks off for artists like me, is just sensible," the star has said.
He is not the first artist to contribute his Mercury Prize funds to charitable organizations.
In they received the prize in the year 1996 for their record the album, vocalist the singer announced that the group would give their cash to the organization War Child.
In 2002, musician she divided her prize between several good causes, such as the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"And I gave a thousand pounds to my local community centre, to their gymnastics program, because I trained in gymnastics when I was a child and they required better apparatus," Ms Dynamite explained to outlets.
Two years ago, the band donated their funds to the community center that developed their group, alongside other local music groups.
Also winners that year the group gave their prize to a charity for MS after a close contact was found to have the disease.
"Receiving the award was sufficient," stated vocalist Small. "The cash was the cherry on top but we didn't require the bonus, because we had the main prize. So our success affected somebody else's life."
In the past week, the MVT revealed it had rescued a couple of grassroots venues in that region, by bringing them into public stewardship.
The first in Southampton and the second in that location were purchased under the public acquisition scheme, which is supported by the arts council and enthusiasts who acquire "shares" in the properties.
