Season 4 winner Carrie Underwood has established a newly created fund to help with causes in her hometown of Checotah, Oklahoma. The organization is known as Checotah Animal, Town, and School Foundation, or C.A.T.S. Foundation. Established this year, the C.A.T.S. Foundation will help with general causes, needs, and services in the area of Checotah to directly impact the community. Private resources will fund the assistance. Information on the C.A.T.S. Foundation's first donation to the Checotah community will be announced soon.

Carrie said, "My hometown is extremely supportive of me and I feel blessed to be able to create something as a way of giving back; to say thank you." This September, Carrie will be inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame. Read more about this special honor, here. Other charities and foundations Carrie has been involved with are PETA, Humane Society of the United States, Do Something, and Stand Up to Cancer.

View Carrie's transformation in our Transformation Gallery.