Yes,

UBI number:

605586264

EIN number:

99-5017390

Yes, Ardent Grants is covered by Draftrs’ Professional Liability Insurance, including Errors & Omissions coverage.

Yes! Claire Tadych is a Grant Professional Certified (GPC) as of May 2025; one of less than 750 certified GPCs in the USA. This means that Claire meets the Grant Professionals Certification Institute’s standards for professional excellence in the field of grant seeking. Claire is an active member of the national Grant Professionals Association and dedicated to ongoing learning in my profession.

We do not work on a contingency basis for several reasons. Our grant expertise, strategic planning, and proposal development time has value and is required for sustainable progress, regardless of a funder’s decision.

Grant funders do not appreciate this method and may ask you to return grant funds.

We follow the Grant Professional’s Code of Ethics, which explicitly forbids contingency-basis payment as it is a conflict of interest for the grant writer.

Ardent Grants is committed to preparing the most competitive grant proposals possible for your organization. We present the facts about your mission-based activities in a compelling application. We cannot guarantee funding because the application approval is entirely within each funder’s control.

Win rates vary from organization to organization based on a variety of factors. At Ardent Grants, we have demonstrated that we are able to secure large grant awards, with many of proposals receiving top marks from reviewers. Win rates are also only one indicator of effectiveness. Other performance measure can include:

• Identifying aligned opportunities.

• Application submissions being used as funder cultivation tools

• Translating organizational data into compelling grant proposals.

• and more!

We primarily support pre-award prosect research and proposal development.

When we secure a grant award win, We prepare a press release and proposal summary/internal grant agreement to help your team prepare for independent post-award grant management. We aid with post-award report preparation.

Grant Fundraising is typically a long-term strategy rather than an overnight solution.  Most grant cycles involve review periods, due diligence, and delayed award timelines. However, clients often begin seeing value immediately through: a stronger funding strategy, reusable grant narratives, and a clearly aligned prospect report.  

Our grant-seeking support, allows your agency more time to pursue different development approaches to diversify your funding streams and receive donations more quickly.

That’s more common than you might think — and it does not mean your organization is not fundable. Many nonprofits, startups, and community initiatives begin without a formal grant history. Strong funding applications are built on clear impact, strategic positioning, and compelling storytelling — not just past awards.

Our role is to help organizations assess and strengthen their readiness for funding by identifying realistic opportunities, clarifying programs and outcomes, and developing competitive grant materials that align with funder priorities. In many cases, first-time applicants are actually well-positioned for capacity-building, pilot, core support, or emerging organization opportunities.

Grant funding is rarely instantaneous, but organizations that invest in a clear strategy and strong infrastructure position themselves for long-term success.

Successful organizations often benefit from layered grant support. We frequently work alongside internal development teams, executive leadership, consultants, or existing grant writers to provide additional capacity and specialized expertise.

Many organizations bring us in for:

• Large or complex proposals

• Federal or state grant opportunities

• Prospect research and funding strategy

• Capacity support during high-volume periods

• Fractional grant leadership and systems development

• Grant calendar management and strategic planning

Rather than replacing your existing team, our work is designed to strengthen your overall funding capacity, reduce staff workload, and increase the organization’s ability to pursue more opportunities strategically and efficiently. You gain expert grant leaders without the cost of adding a full-time senior grants position.

We use AI as a tool to enhance efficiency, not as a replacement for professional grant expertise. Our clients hire us for strategic thinking, funder insight, and real-world grant experience — and those are decisions that remain firmly human-led.

AI may be used selectively to support tasks such as research, drafting, and editing, but every recommendation, strategy, and proposal is reviewed, revised, and finalized by our consultancy. We remain fully responsible for the quality, accuracy, and integrity of all work delivered.

We are dedicated to generating sustainable results vs stretching the agency’s limited resources. The challenge many nonprofits face is that without dedicated grant infrastructure, they remain stuck in reactive fundraising cycles. Our work helps build long-term systems, funding pipelines, reusable grant assets, prospect strategies, and stronger institutional positioning- not just one application. If budget is the issue, committing just to the start-up package may be the best starting point for your organization at this time. We can discuss scaling the scope and prioritizing high-value opportunities.  We can also brainstorm how you can secure funding to get the grant support you need.