The artist has given the complete sum of his £25,000 Mercury Prize cash to the trust for venues, which operates to protect the United Kingdom's independent music venues.
The star was presented with the cheque on 16 October as his new release People Watching was named the top album of the past year.
He has decided to donate the funds to the MVT, in appreciation of the vital role grassroots venues had in his beginning days.
"As an artist would not have achieved this success if it hadn't been for all the gigs I played around the region, and elsewhere, when I was beginning," said Sam Fender. "These venues are iconic, but they are in difficulty."
From early 2023 onward, at least 150 of these venues have ceased operations – approximately 16% of the whole industry in the UK.
In the last year, well-known musicians like Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the trust in its efforts to keep the scene afloat, by including a small levy to their ticket costs, which supports local stages.
Sam Fender also took part, generating in excess of £100,000 on his live tour to assist thirty-eight grassroots venues across England, Scotland, and Wales.
These funds helped locations that were dealing with potential shutdown due to difficulties arising from floods, fire incidents and bereavements, as well as licensing issues, legal disputes and neighbor objections.
Additional spaces obtained financial assistance in improving infrastructure and technical equipment that positively impacted musicians and audiences.
"The notion that revenue from shows in large arenas helps the local stages, where it all starts for performers like me, is just logical," the star has stated.
Fender is far from the only musician to contribute his honor prize money to charitable organizations.
In the band won the award in 1996 for their record the album, lead singer Cocker declared that the band would donate their cash to the charity the charity.
During 2002, musician Ms Dynamite divided her bounty across several organizations, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"I also contributed a thousand pounds to the center, to their classes, because I practiced gymnastics when I was growing up and they required new equipment," she shared with outlets.
Two years ago, the band gave their winnings to the youth organization that developed their act, alongside other grassroots music organisations.
And winners that year they gave their prize to a charity for MS after a close contact was identified with the illness.
"Receiving the award was quite enough," remarked vocalist Heather Small. "The cash was the bonus but we didn't require the extra, because we had the cake. So our winning touched another person's life."
Recently, the trust announced it had protected two grassroots venues in south-east England, by placing them under community ownership.
The first in Southampton and the other in Bristol were purchased under the public acquisition initiative, which is backed by a national body and supporters who buy "stakes" in the properties.
