The star has given the complete sum of his £25,000 award cash to the MVT, which functions to preserve the UK's small music venues.
Fender was presented with the prize on October 16 as his latest record the album was named the best record of the previous year.
Fender has chosen to donate the funds to the Music Venues Trust, in acknowledgment of the essential function grassroots venues fulfilled in his initial steps.
"I personally wouldn't be doing this success if it hadn't been for all the shows I did around the area, and elsewhere, when I was just getting going," remarked Sam Fender. "These venues are legendary, but they are struggling."
Since the start of 2023, over 150 of these venues have shut down – about 16% of the entire UK sector.
In the last year, major artists like Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the Music Venues Trust in its initiatives to help venues survive, by applying a small levy to their ticket prices, which benefits smaller concert halls.
Sam Fender also participated, collecting in excess of £100,000 on his recent tour to help 38 grassroots venues across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The money assisted venues that were facing imminent closure due to issues caused by floods, blazes and bereavements, as well as licensing issues, court cases and neighbor objections.
Other venues were granted funding support in improving facilities and technical equipment that helped musicians and audiences.
"The idea that money from concerts in major spaces supports the local stages, where it kicks off for artists like me, is just common sense," Sam Fender has said.
The musician is far from the only musician to contribute his Mercury Prize funds to charitable organizations.
In they won the prize in 1996 for their album the album, vocalist Jarvis Cocker announced that the band would contribute their winnings to the charity War Child.
That year, musician she shared her award across multiple charities, like the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"I also gave a thousand pounds to my local community centre, to their gymnastics program, because I practiced gymnastics when I was younger and they needed updated gear," she explained to the media.
Two years ago, the band contributed their winnings to the community center that developed their band, alongside other local music groups.
And the 1994 recipients M People gave their award to a charity for MS after a close contact was diagnosed the illness.
"The victory was sufficient," stated artist Small. "The money was the cherry on top but we could do without the extra, because we had the honor. So our winning touched the lives of others."
In the past week, the trust announced it had saved two small stages in the South East, by placing them under public stewardship.
One venue in the city and the second in that location were purchased under the public acquisition scheme, which is backed by Arts Council England and supporters who acquire "ownership units" in the buildings.
