The star has handed over the entirety of his £25,000 Mercury Prize prize money to the MVT, which operates to protect the UK's small live music spots.
Fender was given the award on 16 October as his new release People Watching was named the outstanding release of the past year.
He has decided to hand the money over to the trust, in appreciation of the vital role grassroots venues played in his beginning days.
"As an artist couldn't be pursuing my current career if it hadn't been for all the performances I did around the region, and beyond, when I was starting out," remarked Sam Fender. "These locations are iconic, but they are facing challenges."
Beginning in 2023, at least 150 of these locations have shut down – roughly 16 percent of the total UK scene.
Over the past year, major artists such as Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the MVT in its attempts to help venues survive, by including a modest fee to their ticket prices, which supports smaller concert halls.
He also took part, collecting more than £100,000 on his recent tour to support numerous small stages across England, Scotland, and Wales.
These funds supported venues that were confronting imminent closure due to challenges stemming from water damage, fires and bereavements, as well as licensing issues, legal disputes and neighbor objections.
Additional spaces obtained funding support in upgrading facilities and technical equipment that directly benefitted performers and concertgoers.
"The concept that money from concerts in large arenas helps the local stages, where it all starts for musicians like me, is just logical," Sam Fender has commented.
Fender is far from the only musician to give his award winnings to good deeds.
When the band won the trophy in the mid-90s for their record Different Class, lead singer Cocker announced that the group would contribute their cash to the organization War Child.
During 2002, rapper and singer Ms Dynamite split her award between a few charities, like the children's charity and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"Additionally, I contributed a thousand pounds to Highgate Newtown, to their classes, because I trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they required new equipment," the artist explained to the media.
In recent years, they contributed their prize money to the community center that supported their band, alongside other grassroots music organisations.
And the 1994 recipients the group donated their prize to a charity for MS after a acquaintance was found to have the disease.
"Receiving the award was sufficient," said vocalist the singer. "The money was the cherry on top but we could do without the extra, because we had the cake. So our winning affected somebody else's life."
Recently, the Music Venues Trust shared it had rescued two grassroots venues in that region, by bringing them into community ownership.
The Joiners in that area and the second in that location were purchased under the public acquisition initiative, which is funded by the arts council and supporters who buy "stakes" in the venues.
