The star has handed over the full amount of his £25,000 award prize money to the trust for venues, which works to protect the United Kingdom's grassroots concert spaces.
He was given the prize on 16 October as his latest record the album was chosen as the best record of the past year.
He has opted to give the cash to the trust, in acknowledgment of the vital role grassroots venues played in his early career.
"I couldn't be pursuing my current career if it wasn't for all the shows I played around the region, and beyond, when I was starting out," remarked the artist. "These spaces are legendary, but they are facing challenges."
Beginning in 2023, over 150 of these venues have ceased operations – roughly 16 percent of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, top acts such as Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the Music Venues Trust in its efforts to support the industry, by applying a minor surcharge to their ticket prices, which goes to help independent venues.
Fender also took part, raising over £100k on his 2024 arena tour to help 38 grassroots venues across Britain.
The donation helped locations that were dealing with potential shutdown due to difficulties stemming from floods, fire incidents and personal losses, as well as permit problems, conflicts and neighbor objections.
Some locations were granted financial assistance in upgrading infrastructure and technical equipment that helped musicians and fans.
"The idea that revenue from shows in large arenas backs the smaller venues, where it all starts for artists like me, is just logical," Sam Fender has said.
The musician is far from the only musician to give his Mercury Prize winnings to charitable organizations.
When the band received the prize in the mid-90s for their record Different Class, lead singer Cocker stated that the band would give their prize money to the non-profit the charity.
During 2002, artist she divided her prize among multiple organizations, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"Additionally, I gave a thousand pounds to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics class, because I trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they required new equipment," the artist shared with the media.
Previously, they contributed their funds to the community center that supported their band, as well as other grassroots music organisations.
Also winners that year the group contributed their award to a charity for MS after a friend was found to have the illness.
"Receiving the award was ample," stated singer Small. "The prize was the cherry on top but we could do without the cherry, because we had the honor. So our success impacted somebody else's life."
In the past week, the MVT shared it had protected a couple of local spots in south-east England, by bringing them into public stewardship.
The first in Southampton and The Croft in that location were acquired under the community ownership initiative, which is funded by the arts council and music fans who buy "shares" in the venues.
