Lilly Bumpus grabs an empty box from the towering pile before her and scans a giant shelving unit inside a storage garage in northern San Bernardino.

Cozy on this chilly Wednesday morning in a black Team Lilly sweatshirt with “This girl fought and won” written across the back, the 7-year-old cancer survivor rises to her tippy toes to swipe a police-themed hospital gown off the top shelf.

As she descends from her 10-toe perch, Lilly nabs a Batman stocking, a handmade pillowcase and two pairs of socks.

The girl then piles puzzles and assorted professional wrestling toys into the box before handing it off to start another.

In about six hours, Lilly, her mother Trish Anderson, Anderson’s parents, Frank and Susan, and several other helping hands will have stuffed 200 boxes with personalized gifts for children across the country battling pediatric cancer this holiday season.

Trish Anderson and her daughter Lilly Bumpus, 7, both of San Bernardino, fill care packages for children with cancer at Anderson’s storage unit in San Bernardino on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. Anderson started the Team Lilly Foundation after her daughter was treated for cancer during the holidays. Every Christmas the nonprofit distributes about 200 care packages with toys, hospital bed sized blankets, handmade pillowcases and other gifts. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

Trish Anderson and her daughter Lilly Bumpus, 7, both of San Bernardino, fill care packages for children with cancer at Anderson’s storage unit in San Bernardino on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. Anderson started the Team Lilly Foundation after her daughter was treated for cancer during the holidays. Every Christmas the nonprofit distributes about 200 care packages with toys, hospital bed sized blankets, handmade pillowcases and other gifts. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

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Trish Anderson and her daughter Lilly Bumpus, 7, both of San Bernardino, fill care packages for children with cancer at Anderson’s storage unit in San Bernardino on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. Anderson started the Team Lilly Foundation after her daughter was treated for cancer during the holidays. Every Christmas the nonprofit distributes about 200 care packages with toys, hospital bed sized blankets, handmade pillowcases and other gifts. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

Trish Anderson and her daughter Lilly Bumpus, 7, both of San Bernardino, fill care packages for children with cancer at Anderson’s storage unit in San Bernardino on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. Anderson started the Team Lilly Foundation after her daughter was treated for cancer during the holidays. Every Christmas the nonprofit distributes about 200 care packages with toys, hospital bed sized blankets, handmade pillowcases and other gifts. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

Trish Anderson and her daughter Lilly Bumpus, 7, both of San Bernardino, fill care packages for children with cancer at Anderson’s storage unit in San Bernardino on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. Anderson started the Team Lilly Foundation after her daughter was treated for cancer during the holidays. Every Christmas the nonprofit distributes about 200 care packages with toys, hospital bed sized blankets, handmade pillowcases and other gifts. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)



Trish Anderson and her daughter Lilly Bumpus, 7, both of San Bernardino, fill care packages for children with cancer at Anderson’s storage unit in San Bernardino on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. Anderson started the Team Lilly Foundation after her daughter was treated for cancer during the holidays. Every Christmas the nonprofit distributes about 200 care packages with toys, hospital bed sized blankets, handmade pillowcases and other gifts. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

Trish Anderson and her daughter Lilly Bumpus, 7, both of San Bernardino, fill care packages for children with cancer at Anderson’s storage unit in San Bernardino on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. Anderson started the Team Lilly Foundation after her daughter was treated for cancer during the holidays. Every Christmas the nonprofit distributes about 200 care packages with toys, hospital bed sized blankets, handmade pillowcases and other gifts. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

Trish Anderson and her daughter Lilly Bumpus, 7, both of San Bernardino, fill care packages for children with cancer at Anderson’s storage unit in San Bernardino on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. Anderson started the Team Lilly Foundation after her daughter was treated for cancer during the holidays. Every Christmas the nonprofit distributes about 200 care packages with toys, hospital bed sized blankets, handmade pillowcases and other gifts. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

“These care packages help kids feel more at home,” said Lilly, a second-grader in San Bernardino and six years cancer-free. “They can have toys, pillowcases, blankets. Their plain white stuff reminds them they’re in a hospital, which is scary for some kids.

“We send them these things so it makes them feel better and not scared anymore.”

San Bernardino residents Lilly and Anderson launched the Team Lilly Foundation two years ago to assist boys and girls nationwide battling some form of childhood cancer.

Using Facebook, a platform on which Lilly is an absolute star, the two have raised money to throw birthday and cancer-free parties for children battling the disease. The award-winning nonprofit also has provided families emergency financial assistance and covered funeral expenses; last year alone, Anderson said, the Team Lilly Foundation covered more than $90,000 in funeral costs.

“We never imagined there would be so many different situations that would need us,” Anderson said. “Every day is a different mission, a different purpose. Every day is a different day for fighting. … We’re thankful we’re able to be there for families that truly need us the most. No matter if they’re just starting treatment or ending treatment, whatever shape or form it is, we want them to know they’re not doing it alone.”

While Lilly, who beat Ewing’s Sarcoma as a toddler, has blossomed into an outstanding student, Girl Scout and cancer advocate, the disease has claimed no fewer than seven of her friends over the past 24 months.

But the girl keeps giving.

Every Easter, Halloween and Christmas, donors from across the country flood Lilly and Anderson with thousands of items for holiday care packages, and because the outpouring of support has grown exponentially over the years, the mother-daughter team has had to move its packing parties from the pair’s San Bernardino home to a storage unit nearby.

In their sixth year stuffing care packages, Lilly and Anderson have the routine down to a science.

Color-coded sticky notes for each package not only have a child’s age, gender and likes, but also whether the boy or girl is in in-patient care, in treatment, in remission or in hospice. Children receive certain gifts based on their status.

On top of toys, clothes, handmade pillowcases and other comfort items, children will find in their boxes a gift card, a hand-colored note from one of Team Lilly’s 10,300 Facebook followers and an inspirational quote card crafted and shipped to Anderson this year by a well-wisher.

And to keep the memories of Lilly’s late friends alive, the care packages will include items they enjoyed, such as makeup and jewelry.

“It’s very hard, but we try to fight for as much good as we possibly can,” Anderson said. “We know we can’t change cancer. We know we can’t change treatment or exactly what’s going on in their lives. But we can change what’s going on in their heads and in their hearts.

“We can fight to fill those with as much love and strength as we possibly can.”

In the coming week, a boy battling cancer somewhere in the country will open a package from San Bernardino.

In it, he will find a police-themed hospital gown, a Batman stocking, puzzles, assorted professional wrestling toys and other goodies handpicked a few days prior by his 7-year-old secret Santa.

“My heart feels warms,” Lilly said.