The artist has donated the full amount of his £25,000 Mercury Prize cash to the Music Venues Trust, which operates to preserve the UK's independent concert spaces.
He was given the prize on 16 October as his third album the album was declared the outstanding release of the previous year.
He has decided to give the cash to the trust, in recognition of the vital role local spots had in his beginning days.
"As an artist wouldn't be doing my current career if it wasn't for all the shows I played around the region, and elsewhere, when I was just getting going," stated Sam Fender. "These spaces are iconic, but they are in difficulty."
Since the start of 2023, more than 150 of these locations have shut down – about 16% of the entire UK sector.
Recently, major artists like Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Sheeran have all supported the Music Venues Trust in its attempts to keep the scene afloat, by including a small levy to their ticket costs, which supports local stages.
He also took part, raising more than £100,000 on his live tour to support numerous grassroots venues across Britain.
The donation assisted locations that were confronting potential shutdown due to challenges stemming from flooding, fire incidents and personal losses, as well as regulatory hurdles, court cases and neighbor objections.
Some locations were granted monetary aid in improving amenities and technical equipment that positively impacted musicians and concertgoers.
"The notion that funds from shows in big venues supports the local stages, where it begins for artists like me, is just logical," Sam Fender has stated.
Fender is far from the only musician to give his award winnings to charitable organizations.
When the band received the prize in the year 1996 for their album Different Class, frontman Jarvis Cocker stated that the band would donate their prize money to the organization War Child.
In 2002, musician she split her prize across a few organizations, including the children's charity and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"And I contributed a thousand pounds to my local community centre, to their gymnastics program, because I practiced gymnastics when I was growing up and they required updated gear," Ms Dynamite shared with outlets.
Previously, Ezra Collective gave their winnings to the local youth club that developed their group, as well as other grassroots music organisations.
Additionally winners that year they contributed their award to a multiple sclerosis charity after a close contact was diagnosed the disease.
"Receiving the award was ample," said artist Heather Small. "The cash was the bonus but we didn't need the extra, because we had the main prize. So our success impacted somebody else's life."
Recently, the MVT revealed it had rescued a couple of grassroots venues in that region, by transferring them to public stewardship.
The first in Southampton and The Croft in Bristol were acquired under the public acquisition program, which is funded by the arts council and supporters who buy "ownership units" in the properties.
