The star has handed over the full amount of his £25,000 honor cash to the MVT, which functions to preserve the UK's grassroots music venues.
Fender was presented with the award on 16 October as his new release People Watching was declared the best record of the past year.
He has opted to donate the funds to the MVT, in recognition of the crucial part small stages played in his early career.
"I personally wouldn't be doing what I am doing today if it weren't for all the shows I played around the area, and further afield, when I was just getting going," remarked Sam Fender. "These spaces are legendary, but they are in difficulty."
Beginning in 2023, at least 150 of these locations have shut down – roughly 16 percent of the entire UK sector.
In the last year, major artists such as Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the trust in its attempts to support the industry, by applying a minor surcharge to their ticket costs, which benefits smaller concert halls.
Fender also joined in, collecting over £100k on his 2024 arena tour to help 38 small stages across the UK.
The donation helped locations that were confronting potential shutdown due to difficulties caused by floods, fires and family tragedies, as well as regulatory hurdles, legal disputes and sound issues.
Additional spaces received financial assistance in upgrading facilities and sound and lighting systems that directly benefitted performers and fans.
"The idea that money from shows in major spaces supports the smaller venues, where it begins for artists like me, is just logical," the star has commented.
Fender is far from the only musician to donate his honor funds to worthy causes.
Back when the band earned the trophy in the mid-90s for their record Different Class, lead singer Cocker announced that the band would give their cash to the organization War Child.
During 2002, rapper and singer she divided her award between multiple organizations, including the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"I also contributed a grand to the center, to their classes, because I trained in gymnastics when I was a child and they needed better apparatus," she explained to outlets.
Two years ago, the band contributed their prize money to the community center that developed their band, in addition to other local music groups.
Additionally 1994 winners M People contributed their winnings to a MS organization after a friend was found to have the condition.
"The victory was quite enough," said artist Small. "The money was the extra but we didn't need the bonus, because we had the main prize. So our success touched the lives of others."
Recently, the Music Venues Trust revealed it had rescued a couple of local spots in the South East, by placing them under community ownership.
The first in Southampton and the second in Bristol were bought under the Own Our Venues scheme, which is funded by the arts council and music fans who buy "ownership units" in the venues.
