---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001820144-25-000027"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GRND"
cik: "0001820144"
company_name: "Grindr Inc."
filed_at: "2025-06-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T01:50:43.681146+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Grindr appoints Chad Cohen to Board and Audit Committee Chair; Gary Horowitz resigns

## Summary
- Gary Horowitz resigned from Grindr's Board effective June 3, 2025; not due to any disagreement.
- Chad Cohen appointed to Board and as Audit Committee Chair, effective June 3, 2025.
- Cohen received prorated RSU grant of $196,000 vesting July 19, 2025 under director compensation policy.
- Board approved revised Non-Employee Director Compensation Policy with updated cash retainers and equity awards; supplemental RSUs granted to continuing directors.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001820144-25-000027
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GRND
- cik: 0001820144
- company_name: Grindr Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-06-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1820144/000182014425000027/0001820144-25-000027-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1820144/000182014425000027/grnd-20250603.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001820144-25-000027
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001820144-25-000027.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001820144-25-000027.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Gary Horowitz resigned as Director at Grindr Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: Mr. Horowitz subsequently notified the Company on June 3, 2025 (the “Effective Date”) of his resignation, effective immediately, from the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1820144/000182014425000027/0001820144-25-000027-index.htm

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