Sam Fender has donated the complete sum of his £25,000 award winnings to the Music Venues Trust, which operates to protect the UK's small live music spots.
Fender was awarded the prize on mid-October as his latest record his work was chosen as the best record of the previous year.
He has opted to hand the money over to the MVT, in appreciation of the crucial part grassroots venues had in his early career.
"I personally wouldn't be doing what I am doing today if it weren't for all the performances I performed around the region, and elsewhere, when I was just getting going," stated Fender. "These spaces are renowned, but they are in difficulty."
Beginning in 2023, more than 150 of these spaces have ceased operations – roughly one-sixth of the whole industry in the UK.
In the last year, top acts including the band Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the trust in its efforts to keep the scene afloat, by adding a minor surcharge to their ticket costs, which goes to help smaller concert halls.
Fender also took part, raising in excess of £100,000 on his live tour to help 38 small stages across the UK.
The money helped locations that were confronting possible closure due to challenges caused by floods, fires and bereavements, as well as regulatory hurdles, court cases and sound issues.
Some locations were granted financial assistance in upgrading infrastructure and technical equipment that helped musicians and audiences.
"The concept that money from shows in big venues supports the smaller venues, where it all starts for artists like me, is just sensible," the star has said.
The musician is far from the only musician to contribute his Mercury Prize prize money to good deeds.
In Pulp earned the prize in 1996 for their release Different Class, lead singer Jarvis Cocker announced that the band would contribute their cash to the organization War Child.
During 2002, rapper and singer Ms Dynamite split her award across a few organizations, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"I also contributed a £1,000 to the center, to their classes, because I trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they required updated gear," the artist told the media.
In recent years, the band gave their funds to the youth organization that nurtured their act, alongside other local music groups.
Additionally the 1994 recipients M People contributed their prize to a charity for MS after a close contact was found to have the disease.
"Winning was ample," stated singer Small. "The cash was the cherry on top but we didn't require the extra, because we had the honor. So our success touched somebody else's life."
In the past week, the MVT announced it had saved several local spots in the South East, by bringing them into community ownership.
The first in that area and the second in Bristol were purchased under the Own Our Venues scheme, which is supported by the arts council and music fans who buy "ownership units" in the buildings.
