This work, based on the understanding of the relevance of the role of state universities in the provision of teaching, research and extension, and the demand for identification of complementary sources of financing for their activities, aims to present, in an exploratory way, the management theme of covenants with financial resources, from the complementary role of the Union, as supplementary sources of funding, within the framework of the State University of Bahia (UNEB), from 2009 to 2014. The results of the study from a quantitative approach, based on the statistical technique of factor analysis, indicated the academic and spatial dimensions, demarcated in the context of the university multicamp, as relevant to the process of financial execution of federal agreements at a satisfactory level, signaling the management possible referrals aimed at improving the practices of these instruments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]