Company: MFAN
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-014577
Chunk: 26

Company: MFA FINANCIAL, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 26
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. S. Goodman |     |                    6,007 |     |                 115,880 |     |                 121,887 |
| R. Josephs    |     |                   31,981 |     |                  80,423 |     |                 112,404 |
| L. Polsky     |     |                      -0- |     |                  62,415 |     |                  62,415 |
| S. A. Stamps  |     |                      -0- |     |                  38,272 |     |                  38,272 |
| C. Small      |     |                      -0- |     |                       — |     |                     -0- |
| R. C. Wald    |     |                      -0- |     |                  62,415 |     |                  62,415 |

Non-employee directors are also eligible to receive other grants of Common Stock and phantom shares, as well as grants of stock options, under the Company’s Equity Compensation Plan. We also reimburse all Non-Employee Directors for reasonable travel and other expenses incurred in connection with attending Board, committee and stockholder meetings and other Company-sponsored events and/or other activities in which they engage or participate on our behalf. In addition, we provide all Non-Employee Directors with up to $500,000 of accidental death and dismemberment insurance while traveling to or attending Board, committee and stockholder meetings and other Company-sponsored events. Directors who are employees of the Company (currently, only Mr. Knutson) are not entitled to receive additional compensation for serving on the Board.

| MFA Financial, Inc. | 19 | 2025 Proxy Statement |

TABLE OF CONTENTS Proposal 1. Election of Directors Board of Directors In accordance with our Charter and Bylaws, the Board is currently comprised of seven (7) directors, Laurie S. Goodman, Robin Josephs, Craig L. Knutson, Lisa Polsky, Christopher Small, Sheila A. Stamps and Richard C. Wald, and it is divided into three classes. One class of directors is elected at each annual meeting of our stockholders for a term of three (3) years. Each director holds office until his or her successor has been duly elected and qualified or the director’s earlier resignation, death or removal. The term of the Board’s Class III directors expires at the Annual Meeting. The terms of the other two classes of directors expire at MFA’s 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (