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It probably depends a lot on what you mean for an "organization" to not remember its origins.

For example, can I believe that most (pardon the dismissive term) employees don't know how they came about?  Definitely.  I've worked at companies where only a small minority realized that the name came from some important aspect of the founding, because it rarely occurs to people to question these things.  Likewise, I'd bet that only a tiny minority of police officers could tell you when their department was founded, by whom, and why, because it has little to do with how they see their participation.  Like the industrial employees, they "just work here."

On another scale, most of us probably don't remember the details of how our older friend-groups formed.

However, the more important the work is to the people doing it, the more likely they care about the background.  And there's almost always *somebody* keeping track of these things, because the myth-making contributes to that feeling of importance.  You probably see this most prominently with countries, where patriotism often revolves around founding stories.

Of course, the founding could also be a pack of lies, too.  They *think* that the founder developed the idea in year X based on the following theories, but it was actually much older and started on a dare...but that story proved unsatisfying.