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Home » Pat McGrath wins 2022 TIME and Ally Financial Iowa Dealer Of The Year Award

Pat McGrath wins 2022 TIME and Ally Financial Iowa Dealer Of The Year Award

March 20, 2022 By Seth McDuffee

CEDAR RAPIDS, March 20, 2022 — Pat McGrath, owner of the McGrath Family of Dealerships in Cedar Rapids, Ia., was announced as the 2022 TIME Iowa Dealer of the Year by leaders from TIME and Ally Financial at the 105th National Automobile Dealers Association Show in Las Vegas.

Years of successful business and extraordinary leadership in his community is what earned McGrath the most prestigious award in the automotive retail industry.

McGrath, who earned a bachelor’s degree in marketing from the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls in 1980, always knew he wanted to carve out a career in the retail automotive industry. His father, H.B., founded the family’s first dealership in Wisconsin in 1952. 

As a lifelong resident of Cedar Rapids, McGrath has a strong connection to his community. He has created a donor-driven fund at the Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation, which promotes charitable giving and connects donors to the causes they care about. “We have donated more than $700,000 to the community through the foundation to support organizations in need,” he said. 

McGrath was also a supporter of the University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center in Iowa City. “I am a two-time melanoma cancer survivor,” he said. “I believe I was able to share my experiences and bring a candid, challenging perspective to help their process and vision.” 

In addition, he is a benefactor of the American Cancer Society and has participated in fundraising events, including Chevrolet’s #WeDriveFor social media initiative, which raises money for American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer. 

McGrath also heeds the call of the community on a local level. After a devastating derecho hit his area in 2020 damaging homes and leveling countless trees, he donated to Matthew 25, an organization that helps low-income and uninsured residents repair their homes. 

“We donated $50,000 to Matthew 25 to help repair houses and provided more than 300 trees to employees who were impacted by this terrible storm to plant in their yards,” he said.

McGrath added, “The most rewarding aspect of my automotive career has been the ability to change people’s lives for the better, whether it’s our family, employees or members of the community. That is more rewarding than anything monetarily.” 

Nominated for the TIME Dealer of the Year award by Bruce Anderson, president of the Iowa Automobile Dealers Association, McGrath and his wife, Mary Kay, have three children. 

While McGrath was not selected as the National Dealer Of The Year, being named the Iowa Dealer Of The Year is an immeasurable honor, and the whole of the McGrath Family of Dealerships is overjoyed with the success that McGrath has received.

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