He was a patron of various causes: Umanets-Komarov's Russian-Ukrainian Dictionary (Lviv, 1893–1898) was published with his money; he helped the Kyivska Staryna magazine by giving an award (1,000 rubles) for the best written history of Ukraine and paying royalties for Ukrainian works of literature published in Kyivska Staryna; he organized the Mordovets Foundation at the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv to help Ukrainian writers. Mordovets fund to help Ukrainian writers, financed the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party's weekly "Selyanyn" in Lviv, and became the main founder of the "Academic House" in Lviv (2,5000 rubles), encouraging young people from the Naddniprians to go to Lviv for studies.
During his time in the Central Rada, Chykalenko was an advocate for the inclusion of the Jewish population into the Ukrainian national movement. Chykalenko would often pursue pro-Jewish rhetoric with his colleagues and highlight that a large portion of the Jewish population could communicate in the Ukrainian language prior to the Russian Empire's policies of "russification" in an attempt to ease tensions.[3]