The artist has handed over the entirety of his £25,000 Mercury Prize prize money to the Music Venues Trust, which works to preserve the United Kingdom's grassroots concert spaces.
The star was presented with the prize on mid-October as his third album People Watching was chosen as the top album of the last 12 months.
He has decided to hand the money over to the MVT, in recognition of the essential function small stages had in his beginning days.
"I wouldn't be doing my current career if it hadn't been for all the gigs I did around the region, and further afield, when I was starting out," remarked Sam Fender. "These spaces are iconic, but they are in difficulty."
Beginning in 2023, over 150 of these spaces have shut down – about 16 percent of the entire UK sector.
In the last year, top acts such as the band Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the trust in its initiatives to keep the scene afloat, by including a modest fee to their admission fees, which benefits smaller concert halls.
He also took part, raising more than £100,000 on his live tour to support numerous grassroots venues across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The donation supported locations that were dealing with potential shutdown due to difficulties arising from flooding, fires and bereavements, as well as regulatory hurdles, court cases and noise complaints.
Other venues were granted monetary aid in modernizing facilities and gear that directly benefitted 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 sensible," the star has commented.
He is not the first artist to contribute his award prize money to charitable organizations.
When Pulp won the prize in the year 1996 for their release their work, frontman the singer announced that the band would donate their cash to the non-profit the charity.
During 2002, artist Ms Dynamite divided her prize among a few organizations, including the children's charity and a Sickle Cell charity.
"And I donated a £1,000 to my local community centre, to their classes, because I did gymnastics when I was a child and they needed new equipment," Ms Dynamite told a publication.
Previously, Ezra Collective gave their winnings to the youth organization that supported their band, as well as other independent music bodies.
And the 1994 recipients the group donated their winnings to a MS organization after a close contact was diagnosed the disease.
"Receiving the award was ample," stated artist Heather Small. "The money was the bonus but we didn't need the extra, because we had the honor. So our victory impacted somebody else's life."
In the past week, the Music Venues Trust revealed it had protected a couple of grassroots venues in that region, by transferring them to local control.
The Joiners in Southampton and the second in the city were purchased under the Own Our Venues scheme, which is funded by the arts council and music fans who purchase "stakes" in the buildings.
