Definition of "founding"

So after learning a great deal about iron founding and much more about pike fishing, one regretfully took leave of a shop full of kindly characters and proceeded to a worse lot of odours in the brass foundry.

1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 343

Do foundings of transnational organizations appear to spur foundings of national organizations, or vice versa?

2005, Donatella Della Porta, Sidney G. Tarrow, Transnational Protest and Global Activism