The phrase "financial endowment" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to money or assets given to an institution, such as a college or university, for a specific purpose, such as to provide scholarships or to support research. For example, "Ethan's alma mater received a large financial endowment last year, allowing them to hire four new faculty members."
We have built up – and banked – a considerable financial endowment to secure future innovation and build on our quality journalism.
"This program will be established as a permanent financial endowment to support and aid projects in building crucial open-source infrastructure, tooling, and applications," reads the fund's website.
As of 30 April 2013, McMaster's financial endowment was valued at C$553.1 million.
Cal Poly Pomona financial endowment was valued at $86.7 million as of June 30 , 2014
The garden cost $13.2 million and has a $10 million financial endowment for maintenance and upkeep.
The University of Toronto was the first Canadian university to amass a financial endowment greater than C$1 billion.
It seems counter intuitive that the same foundations fighting to deliver sustainable, irreversible positive change invest their sizeable financial endowments into activities that generate returns in ways that hinder the realisation of their philanthropic efforts and do not reflect the values they espouse.
These variables directly or indirectly related to household's financial endowments and positively influence farmers' capacities to cope and adapt to rainfall variability and reduction in crop yield.
The size of livestock and landholdings are directly or indirectly related to the household's financial endowments and positively influence farmers' capacities to cope and adapt to rainfall variability and reduction in crop yield.
Wekesa et al. ([2003]) examined adoption of improved maize varieties and fertilizer in the coastal lowlands of Kenya and found that unsuitable climatic conditions, high cost and unavailability of seed, perceived soil fertility and low financial endowments were responsible for the low adoption.
The majority of McMaster's financial revenue originates from financial endowments.
