Children's Books On Wheels

Conroe, TX

UEI
F3HGKT5LTH76
CAGE
60Y87
Primary NAICS
624190 Other Individual and Family Services
SAM.gov registration
Active through

Company facts

Self-certified in SAM.gov
  • Minority Owned Business
  • Woman Owned Business
  • Non-Profit Organization
  • Black American Owned
Entity structure
Other
SAM.gov registration date
Physical address
9845 Sleepy Hollow Rd, Conroe, TX 77385, USA
Employees
1-10
Estimated annual revenue
$0-$1M
Industry
  1. Consumer Discretionary
  2. Consumer Services
  3. Diversified Consumer Services
  4. Specialized Consumer Services
SIC code
82 Educational Services
Profiles

Registration and certifications come from SAM.gov and the SBA; company details from public web sources. Updated .

Grant awards

Latest 5 listed here. See the rest on GovTribe.

Grant subawards

Prime recipient Prime award Amount Awarded
Civic Heart Community Services Children’s Books on Wheels (CBOW) will perform all Navigator duties including maintaining expertise in eligibility, enrollment, and program specifications;… NAVCA240482 $105,000
Civic Heart Community Services Children’s Books on Wheels (CBOW) will perform all Navigator duties including maintaining expertise in eligibility, enrollment, and program… NAVCA210403 $95,000

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About the company

Children's Books On Wheels, a nonprofit organization headquartered in Conroe, Texas, operates as a minority-owned and women-owned federal grant recipient that provides Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) grant administration and healthcare Navigator services to underserved populations across rural Texas. The organization is a prime recipient on federal grants (82% of recent awards) and a subrecipient on healthcare enrollment support work, with no federal contracting footprint.

Children's Books On Wheels' customer base concentrates almost entirely on two agencies. The Department of the Treasury's Internal Revenue Service accounts for eight awards spanning five consecutive annual VITA Project Grant cycles from October 2021 through September 2026, with awards issued each October covering twelve-month performance periods. The Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services accounts for two awards — both subrecipient positions under Civic Heart Community Services as the prime grantee, awarded in September 2023 and September 2024. One Department of the Treasury award rounds out the portfolio.

Under the VITA grant program, Children's Books On Wheels operates as a matching-grant recipient responsible for extending income tax preparation services to low- and moderate-income individuals, persons with disabilities, non-English speakers, Native Americans, rural residents, military families, and the elderly. The organization must ensure at least 90 percent of returns prepared serve individuals at or below EITC thresholds, file all eligible returns electronically, and achieve 100 percent of return-production targets while demonstrating year-over-year incremental increases in capacity.

In its secondary role as a Healthcare Navigator subrecipient, Children's Books On Wheels delivers enrollment outreach, education, and referral services across North Harris County and surrounding rural counties in Southeast Texas (Liberty, Montgomery, Walker, and Waller Counties), providing culturally and linguistically appropriate assistance in healthcare plan selection and Exchange eligibility determination. The organization was selected for this work based on demonstrated expertise in rural outreach and community connection.

Activity has remained flat across the five-year window — one award annually in 2021 and 2022, two awards each in 2023 and 2024, and one award in 2025 — with combined obligations of $962 thousand across all eleven awards. One award reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months.

Quick answers

Is Children's Books On Wheels registered in SAM.gov?

Yes. Children's Books On Wheels's SAM.gov registration is active through February 15, 2027.

What is Children's Books On Wheels's most recent federal award?

Children's Books On Wheels's most recent federal grant award is The volunteer income tax assistance (vita) grant was established as a matching grant program to provide funding for… (26VITA0155), from Internal Revenue Service, on October 1, 2025.

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