The artist has handed over the full amount of his £25,000 Mercury Prize cash to the MVT, which works to save the UK's independent concert spaces.
Fender was given the award on 16 October as his latest record People Watching was chosen as the best record of the previous year.
He has chosen to hand the money over to the trust, in acknowledgment of the vital role local spots played in his initial steps.
"I couldn't be pursuing what I am doing today if it wasn't for all the performances I played around the region, and beyond, when I was starting out," stated Sam Fender. "These locations are renowned, but they are in difficulty."
Beginning in 2023, over 150 of these spaces have shut down – approximately one-sixth of the whole industry in the UK.
Recently, well-known musicians including Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the MVT in its initiatives to help venues survive, by applying a modest fee to their admission fees, which benefits local stages.
Fender also joined in, collecting over £100k on his live tour to support numerous local spots across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The donation assisted venues that were confronting potential shutdown due to difficulties arising from floods, blazes and personal losses, as well as regulatory hurdles, conflicts and neighbor objections.
Some locations received funding support in upgrading amenities and technical equipment that positively impacted artists and concertgoers.
"The idea that revenue from performances in big venues backs the independent spots, where it kicks off for artists like me, is just common sense," Fender has said.
Fender is far from the only musician to give his Mercury Prize funds to charitable organizations.
When they received the award in 1996 for their release the album, vocalist the singer declared that the band would give their prize money to the non-profit the charity.
That year, rapper and singer she split her bounty among several charities, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"I also gave a grand to Highgate Newtown, to their classes, because I practiced gymnastics when I was growing up and they needed better apparatus," she told the media.
In recent years, Ezra Collective contributed their funds to the local youth club that supported their group, alongside other grassroots music organisations.
And 1994 winners the group gave their winnings to a charity for MS after a friend was diagnosed the condition.
"Receiving the award was ample," said artist Small. "The cash was the cherry on top but we could do without the extra, because we had the main prize. So our success touched somebody else's life."
Last week, the Music Venues Trust announced it had protected a couple of small stages in south-east England, by transferring them to public stewardship.
One venue in Southampton and the second in that location were acquired under the Own Our Venues initiative, which is funded by the arts council and music fans who buy "stakes" in the properties.
