No institution pays to be listed, to be described, or to change what is said about it. A school, a board, an association or a seminar company appears here because it publishes something a student needs to read, and it appears on the same terms whether it has ever spoken to us or not.
Every directory that ever sold its ordering said it would not. It happened gradually, under pressure, one defensible exception at a time. The only defense against that is to write the rule down in public while there is still nothing to gain by breaking it — so this page exists before the money does.
Sponsorship pays for infrastructure that everyone can see and everyone benefits from equally. Paid placement changes what a student sees. The first is how good things get funded. The second is how directories stop being worth reading.
They are easy to tell apart in the abstract and hard to tell apart at the moment someone offers you money. So the difference is defined here as three questions with yes-or-no answers, applied to every arrangement before it is agreed.
Not whether the site would still be affordable to run — whether a single listing would move, appear, or disappear.
If anything would change, it was placement, and it is refused.
Position is a fixed quantity. Any arrangement that lifts one entry or one offer lowers the ones around it, whether or not it was sold that way, and the people lowered never agreed to it.
If a non-paying peer is worse off, it was placement, and it is refused.
The answer here should be no — not because the funding is hidden, but because it never touched the ordering. Every funder is named on this page. None of them is detectable anywhere else on the site.
If money is visible in the ordering, it was placement, and it is refused.
Three kinds of money can fund this directory. None of them touches what a student sees.
The Kaleidoscope is published by ChiroTrack, and ChiroTrack sets out how its own work is paid for at thechirotrack.com/how-this-is-funded.html; this page holds the rules for the directory.
Every grant-maker, every sponsor and every data licensee is listed here, by name, from the day the arrangement begins. An arrangement that cannot be listed here is not made.
None, as of 4 October 2026.
None, as of 4 October 2026.
None, as of 4 October 2026.
Naming these matters more than naming what we do, because these are the specific offers that arrive and each one has a reasonable-sounding argument attached.
If you ever see something on this site that looks like it was paid for, say so and we will either show you it wasn't or take it down. That request is answered by a person, not a policy team.
Every grant-maker, sponsor and data licensee is named above.