The star has donated the full amount of his £25,000 Mercury Prize cash to the Music Venues Trust, which operates to save the United Kingdom's independent concert spaces.
Fender was awarded the prize on 16 October as his latest record People Watching was chosen as the outstanding release of the past year.
The musician has chosen to donate the funds to the Music Venues Trust, in appreciation of the crucial part small stages had in his beginning days.
"As an artist couldn't be pursuing my current career if it hadn't been for all the shows I performed around the region, and further afield, when I was beginning," remarked the artist. "These locations are legendary, but they are in difficulty."
From early 2023 onward, more than 150 of these spaces have shut down – about one-sixth of the whole industry in the UK.
In the last year, major artists including the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the Music Venues Trust in its efforts to help venues survive, by adding a minor surcharge to their ticket costs, which goes to help local stages.
He also took part, collecting more than £100,000 on his recent tour to assist thirty-eight small stages across Britain.
The donation supported venues that were dealing with potential shutdown due to challenges caused by water damage, fire incidents and family tragedies, as well as regulatory hurdles, conflicts and sound issues.
Other venues were granted financial assistance in upgrading infrastructure and sound and lighting systems that positively impacted performers and audiences.
"The concept that revenue from shows in major spaces backs the smaller venues, where it begins for musicians like me, is just sensible," Sam Fender has commented.
The musician is not the first artist to give his award prize money to charitable organizations.
In they earned the trophy in the year 1996 for their release Different Class, vocalist the singer stated that the band would contribute their winnings to the charity War Child.
During 2002, musician Ms Dynamite shared her award among a few charities, such as the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"Additionally, I gave a grand to my local community centre, to their gymnastics class, because I did gymnastics when I was younger and they lacked better apparatus," Ms Dynamite explained to outlets.
In recent years, the band gave their prize money to the community center that developed their group, alongside other independent music bodies.
Additionally the 1994 recipients M People gave their prize to a multiple sclerosis charity after a friend was found to have the condition.
"Receiving the award was sufficient," remarked singer Small. "The cash was the extra but we could do without the extra, because we had the cake. So our victory affected the lives of others."
Last week, the Music Venues Trust shared it had saved a couple of grassroots venues in south-east England, by transferring them to public stewardship.
The first in that area and The Croft in that location were bought under the Own Our Venues scheme, which is funded by a national body and supporters who purchase "stakes" in the buildings.
