Endowment

Endowment may refer to:

Finance

 * Financial endowment, pertaining to funds or property donated to institutions or individuals (e.g., college endowment)
 * Endowment mortgage, a mortgage to be repaid by an endowment policy
 * Endowment policy, a type of life insurance policy
 * A synonym for budget constraint, the total funds available for spending

Economics

 * Endowment effect, a cognitive bias
 * Endowment, a term used for land reclamation
 * Endowment of natural or other resources that can become capital by the process of production

Other

 * Endowment (philosophy); as a philosophical term
 * Endowment (Latter Day Saints); a temple ceremony that confers heavenly priesthood power in Mormon theology
 * Endowment (Mormonism)
 * A term for when one person's traits are magically transferred to another in the Runelords saga