Hi Tree,
I gave a little contribution to 4.09 and and to aswers your question... I can say that nobody from the team will receive any piece of money for this.
By the way, the "non-sense" of making something for free, spendig hours research, modelling, programming, just for interest, dedication or call-it-the-way-you-like-it... well, it makes me smile. Following your way of thinking, I should not believe that you are wasting time reading the forum of a ten year old sim, someone is paying you to stay here and read every post... isn't it?
just jokin mate. I hope my aswer was exhaustive...
EDIT: Caspar beated me... lol