if you get your own Pantheon but don't go on to founding a Religion, once someone spreads their Religion to you, that city of yours will lose its Pantheon (and w/e benefit it was) and yes that city will begin to receive any applicable bonuses of this Religion.
however, some founder/follower beliefs of Religions are pretty stingy and only really benefit whoever founded it. someone had broken the specifics on this issue a while back, but it's kind of an old thread now i think.