endowment

noun4

1. •
   Something with which a person or thing is endowed.

   • We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments. — 1958
2. •
   Property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution.

   • I seem to see a great university, great in endowment, in land, in buildings, in equipment, but greater still, second to none, in its practical idealism, and its social usefulness. — 1932
3. •
   Endowment assurance or pure endowment.
4. •
   A ceremony designed to prepare participants for their role in the afterlife.