I know I`m certainly not being paid. I do all this out of the kindness of my heart.
Seriously though - what I know is that Kudo is sort of the top mod (possibly first mod?) and there is email contact between Kudo and Eki. Eki is the one who promoted us to mod status, but Kudo is the one who made the selection.
I get the feeling that Eki is the financial backing but that is about it.