CASH Music (Coalition of Artists and Stakeholders) was a non-profit organization based out of Portland, Oregon, founded by Kristin Hersh of Throwing Muses, Donita Sparks of L7, and Jesse von Doom.
The organization was run by executive director Maggie Vail after Jesse von Doom resigned to focus on other matters.
Von Doom went "above and beyond" and created promotional tools that allowed then KRS VP Vail to "keep tabs on which music writers logged into the site and how many times they listened to the tunes".
While many of the platform's features operated independently, it was also designed to be compatible with third-party resources, such as MailChimp, Google Drive, and PayPal through APIs.
cashmusic.js was a lightweight JavaScript library that handled CASH Music embeds available through the platform, provides video lightboxing compatible with YouTube and Vimeo, and simple audio players.
While initial speculation pointed to Super PACs being targeted based on conservative keywords, a New York Times article that ran on June 5, 2013, revealed that IRS scrutiny extended beyond the political.
The term open source is a keyword that is now known to have flagged CASH Music for further investigation, as "the IRS feared that such groups were really moneymaking enterprises".