For the second year in a row, Wimberley’s longstanding food pantry has received a grant from the Carl C. Anderson Sr. and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation. The foundation approached CBB and awarded a $10,000 challenge grant based on the merits of CBB programs and of the highly collaborative nature of the community partners who help them carry their programs out.
Since 1986, CBB has continuously provided weekly food distributions, relying solely on volunteers and community donations. In the four decades it has been in existence, CBB has kept its operating expenses low, neither receiving government funding nor employing paid staff.
CBB also participates in the Student Supplemental Food program which provides food boxes to Wimberley Independent School District students in need during the summer and winter breaks when school breakfasts and lunches are not available.
In 2025, the Summer Student Supplemental Food program alone delivered 10,600 meals to approximately 96 students during the summer break with the help of community partners to distribute the meals.
Once CBB purchases the food, CBB volunteers deliver it to the Barnabas Connection facility which serves as a staging area where additional volunteers from Wimberley area churches and Feeding Wimberley.org assemble and deliver the food boxes to student homes. According to Sr. Grants Manager, Cate Sitton, CBB was awarded the grant again this year because “the foundation was so impressed with the collaboration involved to make this program work.”
Established in 1963, the Carl C. Anderson Sr. and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation funds non-profit organizations in New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. Fully funded in 2023, the foundation has invested more than $70 million in nonprofit organizations to help them serve vulnerable populations. Their focus is children and youth, seniors and people with disabilities.
One of ten children born into a poor family in Naples, Oklahoma, Carl Anderson’s story is a classic “rags to riches” tale. Forced by necessity to drop out of school to support his family, he launched a singletruck transportation business to haul and lay pipeline. From those modest beginnings, the Anderson Corporation grew domestically across the country and internationally in Canada and South America.
Carl met and married Marie Jo Baker, who proved to be an extremely able businesswoman. They raised a family and moved to New Mexico to expand into uranium exploration and mining. Together they pursued real estate, farming and commercial cattle ranching. Marie Jo is credited with the strength, vision and compassion that helped lay the groundwork for the foundation.
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