Innovation, Arts, Community Empowerment.

Ratmir and the Timashev Family Foundation are pioneering ambitious efforts to cultivate innovation and a new ecosystem of entrepreneurship in the American heartland.

Coinciding with parallel initiatives from public and private leaders to draw greater resources off the coasts and into the American Midwest, the Foundation is leveraging the unique positioning of Columbus and The Ohio State University—Ratmir’s alma mater—to deepen its role as a software, marketing, and innovation center of excellence and start-up facilitator. In February 2023, OSU announced a transformative and groundbreaking $110 million gift from the Foundation to create the Center for Software Innovation at Ohio State. Offering a diverse curriculum covering software product management, sales, marketing, and innovation; the university-wide center will partner with industry leaders, entrepreneurs, business scholars, and engineers to attract and cultivate a premier tech talent ecosystem in Central Ohio. In May 2023, Ohio State announced a partnership with Kyiv School of Economics (KSE), facilitated by the Center for Software Innovation, which will establish visiting faculty and scholar programs for lecturing, advanced studies and research, joint workshops and symposia on topics of mutual interest, and general collaboration between both institutions to further efforts on workforce development and veterans’ education.

The Timashev Foundation is intimately involved across numerous arts and cultural institutions, helping to expand access and bolster capacity to ensure that communities across the country can continue enjoying artifacts and treasures from disparate cultures.

In 2020, the Foundation became the largest contributor to Ohio State’s College of Arts and Science in its history, when it committed $17 million to support several university initiatives and its new state-of-the-art music building. The building is equipped with state-of-the-art performance and practice spaces, as well as several venues dedicated to hosting world-class faculty and performances for the public.

The Timashev Family Music Building is among the most acoustically and technologically advanced facilities in the country: former University President Michael V. Drake said in a press release that “Ratmir and Angela’s wonderful gift through the Timashev Family Foundation will elevate our Columbus campus and university broadly for generations to come.”

In recognition of their leadership, Ratmir and Angela were awarded in April 2022 the Distinguished Service Award at the “Honoring Excellence” ceremony from OSU’s College of Arts and Sciences.

An avid art collector and supporter, Angela Timashev has served on the board of the Bruce Museum since 2022. The Timashev Family Foundation supports the Greenwich, Connecticut museum in highlighting the arts, sciences, and natural history throughout its dozens of exhibitions each year. The Foundation also supports Dallas Contemporary, a museum founded in 1978 to support established and emerging artists from Texas and across the globe.

In an effort to help restart in-person arts performances and activities during the pandemic, the Timashev Family Foundation was a leading supporter of the 2022 Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, DC. An annual gathering of arts and cultures from across the country and world, the pandemic caused the festival to shift online for two years during the pandemic’s need for social distancing. The Foundation’s leadership sponsored "The Gifts We Carry: Sounds of Migration and Memory,” an evening kick-off concert organized by famous cellist and advocate Yo-Yo Ma.

Lifting up communities in need and younger generations across the globe has been a key priority for the Timashev Family Foundation since its beginnings. At a time of human migration and crises that challenge the global community, the Foundation supports a number of leading organizations operating on the frontlines for communities through innovation, the arts, and in other important areas including education and human security.

Recently, the Timashev Foundation sprung into action in response to the refugee and humanitarian crises that emerged in Afghanistan and Ukraine. In early 2022, the Foundation continued its support of the Aleph Institute to ensure medical supplies and life-saving treatments reached communities in need in Afghanistan. 

From the earliest days of the invasion of Ukraine and throughout 2022, the Foundation partnered with Jose Andres and the World Central Kitchen to support the organization’s efforts in delivering hundreds of thousands of warm meals to individuals and communities affected by the war.

At home in the United States, the Timashev Family Foundation is a leading supporter of educational institutions across the country. In addition to the endowments of the Center for Software Innovation in 2023 and the Timashev Family Music Building in 2020, Ratmir and the Foundation have endowed several faculty programs in advanced scientific applications, bolstering support for the departments Ratmir studied in as an OSU Masters student in Chemical Physics. In 2018, the university unveiled the Andrei Baronov and Ratmir Timashev Endowed Chair Fund in Data Analytics, which followed a 2016 $5 million gift to the Chemical Physics program made by Ratmir Timashev and Veeam. 

The Foundation also is a leading supporter of Greens Farms Academy, a PreK-12 school serving children across Fairfield County, Connecticut.

The Foundation’s support has also extended to the leading humanitarian response organization, IsraAid; as well as the Mighty Oaks Foundation, which provides vital resiliency and recovery programs for US veterans.